This is an analysis of the poem Winter Stars that begins with:
My father once broke a man's hand
Over the exhaust pipe of a John Deere tractor. The man,...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abcadXXaecfgd Xh dgfii jcbigjcdkahaabdeagfcd bl aha idl kabX a bXiaeb
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 13,2,5,21,2,3,3,4,1,6,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 11011011 10001100111001 100110010110 00101111 01100100101 1101011 0010000101 01010110101001 110100111 11110110 1101010111111 101001100010 110100 11010111001101 1100010 01111000111 1110110011 0101011110101 010110010 1010 0101111010110 0101011110 00101011010101 11000100110 011010101 100101011 10110111110 11011001001 11011110101 01101001 01100110101000 1000110101 011011010101 110111111 0001110111 101000001101 100110010001 0110100101 0010110001 111101101010 10011100111 1111011110 111010111 110101 111010110110 1111110010 11011 11101001010100 01010101 01010011011 0010100111011 0100110101 110111011 111111011110 11101111 110111010101 101101101 01011010111 1010101 100101001
- Amount of stanzas: 10
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 243
- Average number of words per stanza: 46
- Amount of lines: 60
- Average number of symbols per line: 40 (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; it, left are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words in, i are repeated.
The literary device anadiplosis is detected in two or more neighboring lines. The word/phrase cold connects the lines.
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- summary of Winter Stars;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
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