This is an analysis of the poem Shifting Images that begins with:
Remember when mean spirited people,
Told their ethnic jokes....
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ABBCDB eededd bXcdfef ABBCDB XgghX XXhb Xieei cXX X
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,6,7,6,5,4,5,3,1,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 0101110010 11101 110110010 101011 1110111010 11011101 101011 101100110 1010010 001100110 1101010001 110 0101100100101 01101010101100 11010001 1010101010 1011011001 1111110 1010101 0101110010 11101 110110010 101011 1110111010 11011101 010110101 101101001 101100111 11010010011 01011001010 1111001 01110100101010 010100001011 1010110010 01 01111010110 010010100 1111 110100010 1 11101010 10000 1
- Amount of stanzas: 9
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 157
- Average number of words per stanza: 25
- Amount of lines: 43
- Average number of symbols per line: 32 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 5
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and is repeated.
The author used the same word remember at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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- summary of Shifting Images;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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