This is an analysis of the poem The Statue that begins with:
I take you looking at the statue
the smile is yours and the stone is you...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XabXbac XXbddd eeXfeff aaXa XXccf
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 7,6,7,4,5,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 111101011 010110101 01010101010 01010101010 11101111101 1011110101 11110101 110100 1101000 1011011100 010011000101 1111101111100 11101110111 0101110111 1110010011 111011101111 1111011101 1100101101 11011101111 110111 1111001111 00010101111 010101101000 1001011101 1111010101 110001001 101110100011 10111101010 11111101001
- Amount of stanzas: 5
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 231
- Average number of words per stanza: 45
- Amount of lines: 29
- Average number of symbols per line: 39 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 8
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; smile, and, stone, you, your are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words the, however, and are repeated.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines arm, you are repeated).
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- summary of The Statue;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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