This is an analysis of the poem Latched Onto Your Back that begins with:
There is nothing on this Earth,
Waiting with a patience......
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abXcXacX cXd XXbbXXcd
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,3,8,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1010101 100010 011101111 01010110100 010111 11101101 01010010010110100 0010111000 10101011010011111 010000110101101001 11100101111010 1010011010 110101111 011011011100 111010010011101 111011 001111 010110101110100 1101001010111111
- Amount of stanzas: 3
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 287
- Average number of words per stanza: 50
- Amount of lines: 19
- Average number of symbols per line: 45 (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.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; to, you are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word to is repeated.
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- summary of Latched Onto Your Back;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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