This is an analysis of the poem Mural that begins with:
This is your name -
a woman said, ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ABcXdefbfgbeehidXejjafebibkalkiileEebXjlmnEbgjhmgbbEeklXljdjlEjijlcfEABlfhhagnXenidicfliXie
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 91,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: shakespearean sonnet
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 0011 0101 1101010100 11110011 010011101 010101111101 1111010101 1111101101 111101110 001011101 0101010 010101110001 0011000101 11111001000110 0011101111 11001011 101111001 110101011 101011001 0010001 10110101 1011010111 01001101 010101101 1000110111 10010001 11111 00110011 11101100 10111101 110010011 0111011111 010101111 11111 111101111 11110101 100011 10101101 10001101010 110100101 1101010 1100100 111101111 11110101 1111001110 0101101 01011001100010 1101010101111011 01011100110 1111101 01000100101 111101111 111101010 10010001111100100 1100110100111001 10111101 001111 01110101010 111111100 1111 10100101 111101111 11110101 110011101 110101111 0101010101001001 1101010100 11010110101 111101111 0011 0101 110001000010 001110001 111001100010 010101 01110101 010000010 10111 0100101 00100010110 00010101 111101 11110101 110101 0100100010 1110110010 01001 1111111 111011001111111111 111101111
- Amount of stanzas: 2
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 1635
- Average number of words per stanza: 308
- Amount of lines: 90
- Average number of symbols per line: 35 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 7
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; i, white, of, where, know, my, and, it, you are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words one, the, i, as are repeated.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines alone, know, want are repeated).
The literary device anadiplosis is detected in two or more neighboring lines. The word/phrase place connects the lines.
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- summary of Mural;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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