This is an analysis of the poem Like An Animal that begins with:
Behind the smooth texture
Of my eyes, way inside me, ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XabcbXcbXac
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 11,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: limerick
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 010110 0111011 010111 11110101 01011011 1110010 0111 11111 101101 01011 011101
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 283
- Average number of words per stanza: 55
- Amount of lines: 11
- Average number of symbols per line: 25 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 5
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
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- summary of Like An Animal;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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