This is an analysis of the poem Erased that begins with:
My trust in you has rusted,
Cracked and crusted....
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aaXXXbbcccdXdaaacaXcXcXdXcdc
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 28,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1101110 1110 11 1011 1111101 1101 01111 111001001 1111101 1011 101 11110 0011001 111010 010101 11011 111101 0000111101 1010011 1111101 101110001 011010001 1011 10010101 0111010101 111011 010101 0101101
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 720
- Average number of words per stanza: 144
- Amount of lines: 28
- Average number of symbols per line: 25 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 5
Mood of the speaker:
The speaker asks many questions. Perhaps, he or she is in confusion.
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; i, have, to, it are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word that is repeated.
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- summary of Erased;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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