This is an analysis of the poem Shut Tight that begins with:
On the rise,
Again....
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abbc dCEBB fXcf afXcXdCEBB
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,5,4,10,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: enclosed rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 101 01 01011101 010100101 11010101101 101101 1010010101010 0100101101 1100111111011 111111111 0111101 11011010010 00101010001101 11110110100 11110101 01010111 0101111101101 1010101101 101101 1010010101010 0100101101 1100111111011
- Amount of stanzas: 5
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 170
- Average number of words per stanza: 32
- Amount of lines: 22
- Average number of symbols per line: 38 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 7
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; to, my are repeated.
The author used the same word so at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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- summary of Shut Tight;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
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