This is an analysis of the poem Swollen Knuckles that begins with:
From where I sit...
And I have had those opportunities, ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abbcabcdbX ccdbcaaeb Xebfebe XfbXX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 10,9,7,5,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: limerick
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 0111 1111110100 01101010010 01000100 10101010 01011111110 11010 011010101010011 101010010 11010101110 111 10100111010 1110 1010101 0101001 00100010 1100101 10101101001 1001011001010110 1 111011111110 110101101101 1 11101101010111 11110 11110011101100010 1110101010 11110100111 11010100101110 1111 00101110
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 280
- Average number of words per stanza: 49
- Amount of lines: 31
- Average number of symbols per line: 35 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 6
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and, to, i are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word and is repeated.
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- summary of Swollen Knuckles;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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