This is an analysis of the poem A Past You Trashed that begins with:
What is it you've contributed,
That warrants your demands to get......
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abXbba bbcc bXdXddb bdbdXX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,4,7,6,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: limerick
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 10010100 11010101 1000010 1010111110 101001001 0110 100111 010100111011 0111010110 1011100010 110111101 111010 1011111111 001001 11011111 1111010101 100110111 1010001101001 10100110100 1011111 110111 1110110001 11101110010
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 206
- Average number of words per stanza: 35
- Amount of lines: 23
- Average number of symbols per line: 35 (medium-length strings)
- 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, to are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word to is repeated.
The author used the same word what at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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- summary of A Past You Trashed;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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