This is an analysis of the poem The Hangman's Great Hands that begins with:
And all that is this day. . .
The boy with cap slung over what had been a face. .. ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: Xa bXbXXXaXcXXcdeXbXdXeX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 2,21,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 111001 010111011001 1101010101100 1 1011111101011101 101010011011011 101111100100111110 111010100101 11101001101 11001001111011 110110010101 11010101 00111101001010 10101010101 001000100101 1101011101010 10 10101 0101010101111 11001110111010 1101111100010010 111011001001010010 11
- Amount of stanzas: 2
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 539
- Average number of words per stanza: 100
- Amount of lines: 23
- Average number of symbols per line: 46 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 9
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; angry, that, to, of are repeated.
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- summary of The Hangman's Great Hands;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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