This is an analysis of the poem Laughter that begins with:
Laughter dies out but is never dead
Laughter lies out the back of its head...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aaaaaaaa
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: limerick
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 101110101 101101001 101110101 011111011 0111001001 11101011001 10101000101 1010100101
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 342
- Average number of words per stanza: 67
- Amount of lines: 8
- Average number of symbols per line: 42 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 8
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; laughter, in, of are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words laughter, it, sucked are repeated.
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- summary of Laughter;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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