This is an analysis of the poem Poetics that begins with:
You know the old story Ann Landers tells
About the houseife in her basement doing the wash?...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aXXbbbXX acXXcccX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,8,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 1101101101 0101000101001 11001111101 11110011011 10111010111 011110101 0101010011 11000110110111110 01010110101 0101010001 1111001110 0010110100101 1001110001 0101010101 1111101101 1001010111
- Amount of stanzas: 2
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 364
- Average number of words per stanza: 64
- Amount of lines: 16
- Average number of symbols per line: 45 (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; well is repeated.
If you write a school or university poetry essay, you should Include in your explanation of the poem:
- summary of Poetics;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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