This is an analysis of the poem The Map that begins with:
Applying to Heavy Equipment School
I marched farther into the Great Plains ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abccXb XaXb bdbe XXeXXd
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,4,4,6,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 0100100101 111000011 101011 111011000100 0110010110 11111 110010101101 01011010 1010 10110 101100110110 11101110110101 11101110 1011 1111110100 110011 11011 11011010101 1011011 0010101010110
- Amount of stanzas: 2
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 355
- Average number of words per stanza: 66
- Amount of lines: 23
- Average number of symbols per line: 30 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 6
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; you is repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words and, my are repeated.
If you write a school or university poetry essay, you should Include in your explanation of the poem:
- summary of The Map;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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