This is an analysis of the poem The Morning Half-Life Blues that begins with:
Girls buck the wind in the grooves toward work
in fuzzy coats promised to be warm as fur....
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aXbcX dXecfdXghc ecfegfXXgbX hXXacfh X
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 5,10,11,7,1,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1101001011 01011000111 011010 100100101011001 111100111001 10101101011010 1100110110101 010010010110 110111000100101 1010100101 111001110 11010110111010 11001110111101 1111110110 1101 1101111110110 1101111111 1101 11001001101 0100111111 11100101010 10010001101 11110100111 01101111 110101101011010 10111011101 100101010011 10011101110 11000110010001 11111100101101 01111101010 1101111101101 11111010110011 0100010
- Amount of stanzas: 5
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 312
- Average number of words per stanza: 59
- Amount of lines: 35
- Average number of symbols per line: 44 (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; of, by, not, and are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word where is repeated.
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- summary of The Morning Half-Life Blues;
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- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
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