This is an analysis of the poem The Golden Gourd that begins with:
What chance have snakes upon an asphalt road
When giant limousines go gliding by,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abXaabba cddcXaa
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,7,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: limerick
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: sonnet with iambic pentameter or irregular meter
- Metre: 1111011111 1101011101 0100010101 0101010101 1111001001 1111000101 11010001101 1111011101 1101010111 0101010101 1101010101 0101011100 1101010101 1111000101
- Amount of stanzas: 3
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 189
- Average number of words per stanza: 34
- Amount of lines: 14
- Average number of symbols per line: 40 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 7
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
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- summary of The Golden Gourd;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
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