This is an analysis of the poem At The Expense Spent that begins with:
Almost bare to nearly naked wearing feathers,
On a fashion runway with arms out stretched....
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abXcc bacda XdXab
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 5,5,5,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: rondeau
- Metre: 111010101010 1010110111 101010001111010 10100001010110 1001111010010 1101010101 10110010101011 101111000100 01010110100010 101001111001 11001111010 11010101111 1010100101 11100011 010110010001010100
- Amount of stanzas: 3
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 246
- Average number of words per stanza: 39
- Amount of lines: 15
- Average number of symbols per line: 48 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 8
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.
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- summary of At The Expense Spent;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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