This is an analysis of the poem Collateral Damage that begins with:
Collateral damage,
Is difficult to fix......
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ABcd adeF FXFdeFcFdd ABXfd
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,10,5,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 010010 010001 011001 110100001 0010010 001001 01011 00110 00110 10001 100110 010001 1 00110 0100101110 100110 1010101 00100101010 010010 010001 0 0110 10101001
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 135
- Average number of words per stanza: 26
- Amount of lines: 23
- Average number of symbols per line: 23 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- 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 poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word to is repeated.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines is is repeated).
If you write a school or university poetry essay, you should Include in your explanation of the poem:
- summary of Collateral Damage;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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