This is an analysis of the poem The Remains that begins with:
I empty myself of the names of others. I empty my pockets.
I empty my shoes and leave them beside the road....
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abac Xcbc XXXX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 11011001010110110 110111100101 1111101 11001001011111101 101010101111 111111111 011011001 111111001 110110110 000101011111 1111111111101 1101101111101
- Amount of stanzas: 3
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 178
- Average number of words per stanza: 38
- Amount of lines: 12
- Average number of symbols per line: 44 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 10
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; i, empty, of, my are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word i is repeated.
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- summary of The Remains;
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More information about poems by Mark Strand
- Analysis of Keeping Things Whole
- Analysis of The View
- Analysis of When the Vacation is Over for Good
