This is an analysis of the poem A Box Of Tissue that begins with:
Even in winning a contest won,
The doing does not guarantee......
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abcadefdg ghidXXiie djX XadgedbX kX bfdbd X XkdldfjfaXac X lXXh
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 9,9,3,8,2,5,1,12,1,4,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 100100101 01011101 1011100100 010010101 010010 001011 1111 00100111 10011 101101111 101001110 01000010001001 001011100 1010001 1101111 11 1111101001 1011100010111 11010 110001110 01010000 11 100111 1101110100 01100 1100111 011101010 1010100011 110 1011 11110010111 10110011 01110101 11101010 110001000001 011 1111 101100 01011 11010010101010 1110101 10100011010 011011100100 1101001010 101101001 11111011001 11 111001101 11101010 1100011010011 1101101 101 01111 10111010110
- Amount of stanzas: 10
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 165
- Average number of words per stanza: 30
- Amount of lines: 54
- 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:
There are many three dots in the poem. Readers should think of the author's idea together with the pensive speaker.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; i is repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word i is repeated.
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- summary of A Box Of Tissue;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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