This is an analysis of the poem That Hole Is Not Of Our Making that begins with:
Although their fingerprints appear,
On the shovels used to dig themselves......
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XaXbcXd baX dX caX cXddd
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 7,3,2,3,5,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11110101 101010101 000111 11101101 011001011001 101011101 0111100100 10010101 1101011010 11111011001 110101001000 111010110 110110100101 11001111 1000100101001 111101111 110 111010001 10110101 011000100
- Amount of stanzas: 5
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 152
- Average number of words per stanza: 27
- Amount of lines: 20
- Average number of symbols per line: 37 (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; to, it are repeated.
The poet repeated the same word ' at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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- summary of That Hole Is Not Of Our Making;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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