This is an analysis of the poem The Knife that begins with:
In my sleep:
Fell at his feet wanted to eat him right up ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabXc dd eee dXef dcca aagXff hXh ibig
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 5,2,3,4,4,6,3,4,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 011 11011001111 111 1010 1101 01110 01111101 110101001 110101001001 0101010101 10111101 11110 1100010 1 11011 101110111 011111010101 1 11 11111111 010111001 10101111 1010100111011 11111 00011111 11011111111 0001011010 1101110101101 1000101110111 1100101010010101 0111100101
- Amount of stanzas: 8
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 133
- Average number of words per stanza: 26
- Amount of lines: 31
- Average number of symbols per line: 34 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 7
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; up, i, my, know are repeated.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines up is repeated).
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- summary of The Knife;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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