This is an analysis of the poem Bosnia Tune that begins with:
As you pour yourself a scotch
Crush a roach or check your watch...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: Aab Ccb dXb e Ffddb X Bbb Gfb HhXX X AabBCcbBeebBFfbBddbBBXbbGgXBHhii
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 3,3,3,1,5,1,3,3,4,1,32,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: rondeau rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1111001 1011111 1110111101 0010101 1110101 1111101101 101101110 111101101 1101101 1011111 1011101 1010001101 011011110101 1110101 1110101101 10 1011001 1101001010101 111 1110111 1111010 11110101101 1111101 1010111 0010101 111 110 1111001 1011111 1110111 101 0010101 1110101 1111101 101 0110111 0111101 1011101 101 1011101 1111101 101110001 101 1110101 1110001 1110101 101 1011001 110100 1010101 111 1110111 1110101 1110101 101 1111101 1010111 0010101 111
- Amount of stanzas: 11
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 155
- Average number of words per stanza: 28
- Amount of lines: 59
- Average number of symbols per line: 28 (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.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; your is repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words or, people are repeated.
The poet repeated the same word die at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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- summary of Bosnia Tune;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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