This is an analysis of the poem Clip Those Claws To Toss that begins with:
Accept flaws as a cause.
And a purpose not a curse, ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ABC DEED FGCBC FcXXb ABC DEEDXFGCBCd
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 3,4,5,5,3,11,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 011101 1010101 01010101 01100101010 01001010 10010010 0010010101 111011 101010 1001010101 101100100 1011011111 111011 1101 1101101011 101 11100101 011101 1010101 01010101 01100101010 01001010 10010010 0010010101 111011 101010 1001010101 101100100 1011011111 1011010001011
- Amount of stanzas: 7
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 140
- Average number of words per stanza: 25
- Amount of lines: 30
- Average number of symbols per line: 32 (medium-length strings)
- 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; to is repeated.
The author used the same words accept, clip at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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- summary of Clip Those Claws To Toss;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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