This is an analysis of the poem Soonest Mended that begins with:
Barely tolerated, living on the margin
In our technological society, we were always having to be rescued ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abXacddaaXebafbgbfheijkfiXleXmecclk lljggcfblXgcfdclaeddfbfXXfdcdlfflXmh
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 35,36,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: enclosed rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 101010101010 011010001001011100010 101001011100010100 010110111001 11010001001001 1010000101010100 010011101011110010010 011110010010010 111111011 10100001011001 1101011011101111 1011110001010101 011001010100110 100110101101001 111101001001 0101101111010110101 11010001110111001 00110001100 011111011001001 0110100011111 01010100110 01010011110 1110101001010111 11110011011000 1101101001110 010100111110111 0101001010010101 010100010111101 1101110101 0101100010101 0011100111 0110100010111110 0011101011 010111000101 1001011010101 110110001 1111011101101 011011110100010010 01000011111011 10010111110101 010100101000100 1100010010100111011 110101001010 001001001111100101 111011001011011 0100110000101100 11011011000101 0001011100 10100101010110 10010010100110100 1000100101001100101 110100100010100010 11101011101010111 101011101101100 100010101010010 000101101101 0111100101101001 1010110010001110011 10110100010 11010101100101011 001010010011111101 11110101110 11110100101 01010001110 010111100110100001 1001111110001 01000011011111 1001001101010 0101001100010 1010001111101 00100101111101
- Amount of stanzas: 2
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 2034
- Average number of words per stanza: 363
- Amount of lines: 71
- Average number of symbols per line: 56 (very long strings)
- 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; in, to, and, it, of, this are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words the, to are repeated.
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- summary of Soonest Mended;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
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