This is an analysis of the poem Half-And-Half that begins with:
You can't be, says a Palestinian Christian
on the first feast day after Ramadan....
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aaXbXX XcdX caXXeXba Xcdeae Xa
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,4,8,6,2,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 110101010010 1011110101 11111111 1111101101 101110111 100111 101011010100010 110011 1101001010 011001110 0101101110 111010111 11011010 001101101 10111010001 00101110110 10111111 0100010 0101001000111100 10010110 111011100 10100101111 00101010111 1010101 01011110
- Amount of stanzas: 5
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 192
- Average number of words per stanza: 36
- Amount of lines: 26
- Average number of symbols per line: 36 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 7
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; half, and, here, she are repeated.
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- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
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