This is an analysis of the poem The Continuous Life that begins with:
What of the neighborhood homes awash
In a silver light, of children hunched in the bushes,...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XabcXdefXdXbggXXhcifbaahXcei
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 28,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 100101101 0010101010010 10011110010 110010010010 010101001101010 111111001 011010100111 1111001110 110011111010 0101001011111 1101101011001 11110010110010 011110111101 011001001110100 101001111001 01011110101 011001001001 11100101001010 01101010100101 111111101101 01001011001110 000100100111101 11101111011 011010011111 01010011100100 101101110110 11001111 1010010011101
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 1429
- Average number of words per stanza: 257
- Amount of lines: 28
- Average number of symbols per line: 50 (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; of, and, to, that, you are repeated.
If you write a school or university poetry essay, you should Include in your explanation of the poem:
- summary of The Continuous Life;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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