This is an analysis of the poem Straight Talk that begins with:
Everyone speaks of him.
Hands dancing in air...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: X abcXddXcedefXbfdcc bX a fXc
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 1,18,2,1,3,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 101101 11001 1101010 0010100 010000101 0101001000 0101001100 0100110 10111010 1111011 01011101 100101011 101101101 0100101010 11101100 10011101 101010100 0111110 1011 10010100 01100111 110111001101 10110101 011110001 1101001010000100
- Amount of stanzas: 5
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 160
- Average number of words per stanza: 28
- Amount of lines: 25
- Average number of symbols per line: 31 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- 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; his, and are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word of is repeated.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines in is repeated).
If you write a school or university poetry essay, you should Include in your explanation of the poem:
- summary of Straight Talk;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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