This is an analysis of the poem Pooling From A Tank Of Picked Catches that begins with:
Pooling from a tank of picked catches,
Examined and tested......
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ABABB CCACb ADDD ADDD ABABB AC DCACbDa ADDDXDDd
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 5,5,4,4,5,2,7,8,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rondeau rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 100010110 010110 01011010 110100110010 011101010 1010101101001 1111101001 0010101 101111 1 110100100101 110110001101 11011101101 111011111 110100100101 110110001101 11011101101 111011111 100010110 010110 01011010 110100110010 011101010 110100100101 1010101101001 110110001101 1111101001 0010101 101111 1 11011101101 10101010 110100100101 110110001101 11011101101 111011111 111011111 111011111 1010110111
- Amount of stanzas: 9
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 177
- Average number of words per stanza: 32
- Amount of lines: 39
- Average number of symbols per line: 40 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 7
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; not, they're, to are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words they're, like are repeated.
The author used the same word they're at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines fun is repeated).
The poet repeated the same word fun at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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- summary of Pooling From A Tank Of Picked Catches;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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