This is an analysis of the poem At The Gym that begins with:
This salt-stain spot
marks the place where men...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abcX debf ghbg Xdei Xihc fjca ehij hfXX Xi
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,2,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 0111 10111 1111 1001 1110 11010 1110110 0111 110101 00100100 010110 11100 110010 11110 01010 10110 11101 110010 1101010 1111 10010010 010111 1101 10100 10111 101010 101010 11101 10011100 1000110 00101101 01101001 10110 0101010
- Amount of stanzas: 9
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 90
- Average number of words per stanza: 15
- Amount of lines: 34
- Average number of symbols per line: 23 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 4
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; power, our are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words power, of are repeated.
If you write a school or university poetry essay, you should Include in your explanation of the poem:
- summary of At The Gym;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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