This is an analysis of the poem Hunger that begins with:
It was hard to believe the flesh was heavy on my back.
The fisherman said: Will you have her, carelessly,...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aXbXb bXcXb deabd ccXXed
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 5,5,5,6,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: heroic couplets
- Metre: 01100101110111 010110110100 10011011101 100010011101 11011101 1101010101 11100011 110101001110 101110101101 01111011001 00100101010101 01111011101 111110101 111100101011 101100101101011 111111011101 10101111111 0111110100101 1110001110 11001011110101 0101011001001
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 270
- Average number of words per stanza: 50
- Amount of lines: 21
- Average number of symbols per line: 51 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 10
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; his, i, in, my, her are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word i is repeated.
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- summary of Hunger;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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