This is an analysis of the poem Autobiography that begins with:
My father made the walls resound,
He wore his collar the wrong way round....
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aa Xb cc dd aa dd ee aa bBBBBBBX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,8,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11010111 110100111 11110110 10101101 1111011 11111111 0111101 11110001 1110101 11111101 1110101 1110101 11010101 1010100 01110001 01110111 101101101 11101101 11101101 11101101 11101101 11101101 11101101 111011010
- Amount of stanzas: 9
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 83
- Average number of words per stanza: 16
- Amount of lines: 24
- Average number of symbols per line: 30 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- 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; come, back, early, or, never are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words the, come are repeated.
The author used the same word when at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines come is repeated).
The literary device anadiplosis is detected in two or more neighboring lines. The word/phrase come connects the lines.
If you write a school or university poetry essay, you should Include in your explanation of the poem:
- summary of Autobiography;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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