This is an analysis of the poem The New Hieroglyphics that begins with:
In the World language, sometimes called
Airport Road, a thinks balloon with a gondola...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aXb Xac Xde XcX Xdc ddX afc cfc ccb XXd dde Xfe fXf egc bgX XeX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: enclosed rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 00110011 111010100010 100001011010 110111 11010111010 1110101111 10101001111 1111111001 110010111010010 101110111010 1010011110110 1101111110 11110111111 00111110101 0101010011011 01001101010100 01001100110101 11010110101001100 100101001101 01101111000 111011101010 1001010101 11010101010 0001110101 110010101111 1010110101101 0011010010101010 1101111011 10011101010010 1010110010011 110000111011 01110010101011 0111011011010 101011010101 0100100010110101 110011111010 01101001111010 101110011111101 0111011101 11100101110 00111101101 10101010000110 11101100110 1101010101001 1110010100110010 11011110100010 10101101001110 001110111101
- Amount of stanzas: 16
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 146
- Average number of words per stanza: 25
- Amount of lines: 48
- Average number of symbols per line: 48 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 8
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; for, of, in, and are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word the is repeated.
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- summary of The New Hieroglyphics;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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