This is an analysis of the poem Siren that begins with:
I became a criminal when I fell in love.
Before that I was a waitress....
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ab cdX eb fa X XecccX cegbb gbfdbgXf
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 2,3,2,2,1,6,5,8,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 101010011101 01111010 110101001101 1100101110 11010 1100100101 01101111 10010 101101 101110 110011111 1011101 01110111 1111011 0111 101110010 111 0111110 0101011 0010 111011 1101111 1111010100011 0011100111 01001011 1100101 11101010 011010010
- Amount of stanzas: 9
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 94
- Average number of words per stanza: 20
- Amount of lines: 28
- Average number of symbols per line: 29 (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; i, to, you, she are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words i, a are repeated.
The author used the same word i 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 you is repeated).
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- summary of Siren;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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