This is an analysis of the poem In Celebration that begins with:
You sit in a chair, touched by nothing, feeling
the old self become the older self, imagining ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabXbacdXadeXfXffbaaecf
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 23,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11001111010 0110101010100 1001001001001 1111000101 111100011110 010110111110 010110100111 110101101001 1101110111 1100111001110 01001010111 0100100001010 1101001101 010101010101 111010110010110 10010110100 1110010010 0010100101010 11101010010 110111101010 110101111010 1111111110110 1001001001110010
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 1157
- Average number of words per stanza: 205
- Amount of lines: 23
- Average number of symbols per line: 49 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 9
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; you, leads, to, that are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word you is repeated.
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- summary of In Celebration;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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