This is an analysis of the poem Emotional Monologue that begins with:
A man is sitting within the enigmatic turmoil of a railroad station. His face is narrow and young, and his nose, lips, and eyes carved to a Semitic...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: a BCAdbbdcbcecXfgcdXhichcXdgaXcifgdXejcgiXaggklbbXbbjdkjXldbXaBCA
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 1,63,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 0101001010101100111001010111011111000101010100101001000100111010111011011110100110101110110100 11100010 11000001 0110100 1110100001 01010010 01011110 10111 010010110100 100110001 10101 1000100010 001010101 010101010 1010001 0101101001010 1111011 0111011 0001010000 0101001 10111 10100010 101101 11010010100 1101101 01000101 010101 001010 0101001 010100100 0010001 01010001 0101010 01010101 01010101 1101010100 1101010100 01010101 10111101 010000101 01100101 01000100 0100010010 1101011 1000100101 0101001 010010010 1011101010 0100110011 111001011 101010 1110101010 011000010 0011011 1111110 100100101 01001001 1101001010 0100010 110101000 111110010 11100010 11000001 0110100
- Amount of stanzas: 2
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 1166
- Average number of words per stanza: 199
- Amount of lines: 64
- Average number of symbols per line: 35 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 6
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and, his, of are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words the, and are repeated.
The poet repeated the same word theatre at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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- summary of Emotional Monologue;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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