This is an analysis of the poem Sun In The Mouth that begins with:
And the truth scorches and singes
the pink open flesh of your mouth...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XabcX defgh fiXaa Xeac jejkf calaj aheXd kehld Xgbge efejjd ekef jmleedlfXjmieijjj
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 5,5,5,4,5,5,5,5,5,6,4,17,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: ballad stanza
- Metre: 10110110 01101011 00101011 100101110 0111101 1011010 01111001 011101001 010010111 111011010 0010101 00100010 00100010 101001 11111 1111110 0100111 010011 111010100 10100101 101001 1111101 011010101 01010010011 0100101010 110101 00100101 11011 111001011 1011011001 11010010100 010101111 110110111 0100011011 001110011 10010011 11101011 11110101 01101001 01010111 1010111 01001011 01001100010 1001001 111110001 10010011 01001011 01101110 1110101 0110001 101000011 0010001 1000101 00101 111110010101 11110111 10100101 10101011 01010111 100111 10010001 10011101 0111010 01101110 0101101 0110111 1111001 0010111 01110111 01101110 001110
- Amount of stanzas: 12
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 190
- Average number of words per stanza: 38
- Amount of lines: 71
- 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, how, of, and, he, my are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words the, with, a, he are repeated.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines lord is repeated).
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- summary of Sun In The Mouth;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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