This is an analysis of the poem Rectangles that begins with:
Many a day she played with my rectangles.
Wishing to pick them up, ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: AbXXaa AXXcXXb cXaXX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,7,5,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 10011101110 100101 1100101 1110100100 01100110 1100110 10011101110 110111001 11011010 10101111 10111011110 010111 11010101 1101 111111 101110 101110 1010101
- Amount of stanzas: 3
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 194
- Average number of words per stanza: 36
- Amount of lines: 18
- Average number of symbols per line: 32 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 6
Mood of the speaker:
There are many exclamation marks in the poem. The speaker is excited. He or she has strong feelings on the subject that is described in the poem.
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; and is repeated.
The author used the same word many 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 rectangles is repeated).
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- summary of Rectangles;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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