This is an analysis of the poem Archaic Fragment that begins with:
I was trying to love matter.
I taped a sign over the mirror: ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aab ca bX XX XX cX XXca
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 3,2,2,2,2,2,4,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11100110 110110010 110110111 010100111 0111111000010010 110 1111 110110011 111101110 10101 111101 1 101111 101 11 01010
- Amount of stanzas: 8
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 57
- Average number of words per stanza: 10
- Amount of lines: 16
- 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.
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- summary of Archaic Fragment;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
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