This is an analysis of the poem Bruises (Rolling With The Punches) that begins with:
Bruises,
To get them......
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aBCdd cebc AFaXea AFaghg aBCfdchi abiFiXhaiFic
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 5,4,6,6,8,12,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 10 010 1001 101101 0100111 1110010 01101001 101011 101011 100010 01111101 0 11001 101101 110010 100010 01111101 0 11101 1010101 011001 10 010 1001 1 100101 11001101 1011001 10111 11111110 01011110 101 001 101 01001101 11 0010 101 001 101 1001011
- Amount of stanzas: 6
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 149
- Average number of words per stanza: 27
- Amount of lines: 41
- Average number of symbols per line: 21 (very short strings)
- Average number of words per line: 4
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; to is repeated.
The author used the same word rolling at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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- summary of Bruises (Rolling With The Punches);
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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