This is an analysis of the poem Poem (‘it Doesn’t Look Like A Finger...’) that begins with:
It doesn’t look like a finger it looks like a feather of broken glass
It doesn’t look like something to eat it looks like something eaten...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XaabcXXaXaacbaXXdbdbaXaebe X
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 26,1,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: limerick
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 01110100110100101 011110010111010 011111010111110 1000101 01110101011110101 010101011101 01110100110100101 01001011101 0111001001101000 01110101000011011 11101111101 1101 10110111 01001011101 011111011010101 01111100010011110 11110011001110 01110100110100101 011101101011011 010101001010010 01001011101 01110101011011 011110111 10011 100111 110111001011 1010011111
- Amount of stanzas: 2
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 757
- Average number of words per stanza: 147
- Amount of lines: 27
- Average number of symbols per line: 55 (very long strings)
- Average number of words per line: 11
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; it, like, doesn, t, look, looks, my are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word it is repeated.
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- summary of Poem (‘it Doesn’t Look Like A Finger...’);
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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