This is an analysis of the poem The Freaks that begins with:
He talks, turning a sun-stained
Cheek to me, his mouth, a dark...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XXabXacaXXXXcbcXXXbb
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 20,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1110011 1010101 10110000 0101101 1111111 1101011 11101010 1010100 0101010 1010101 1010110 1101011 1111111 1110101 1101010 1110101 0101010 1101010 0111111 1010101
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 607
- Average number of words per stanza: 109
- Amount of lines: 20
- Average number of symbols per line: 29 (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 The Freaks;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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