This is an analysis of the poem They Rode My Back Like Hungry Fleas that begins with:
The teachers I initially had,
Earlier in my developing life......
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ABAcDBE cXfXeg ABAcDBEg XeXXX hh XfdgchhX Xh eXXg
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 7,6,8,5,2,8,2,4,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 010101001 1000101001 101 1 11000010011 11110101 01101001011 101100101101 001010110101 110111111110 11011110100 10111 101001100110100 010101001 1000101001 101 1 11000010011 11110101 01101001011 1011111010101 10100 11101 111110101010 11001 11110 1 1010011011 11101 110 0101110010 100100010101 01001010010 101101 101 11111101 10110110 00 101 10111 11111101
- Amount of stanzas: 9
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 138
- Average number of words per stanza: 25
- Amount of lines: 41
- Average number of symbols per line: 29 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 5
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; and, they, me are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word they is repeated.
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- summary of They Rode My Back Like Hungry Fleas;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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