This is an analysis of the poem How Palestinians Keep Warm that begins with:
Choose one word and say it over
and over, till it builds a fire inside your mouth....
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XabcdXcb cdedXXbeaddd Xad
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,12,3,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: enclosed rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11111010 1101010100111 1000011111010101 010111011 111111011011 11111111 0110110101 01111110 111111101 11101101 110110110 101001 11101111100100 10110011111 0110101101 01001 11011011 110101 11111010110 1011 1111101110111 11111011111 11110111101110
- Amount of stanzas: 3
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 320
- Average number of words per stanza: 63
- Amount of lines: 23
- Average number of symbols per line: 41 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 8
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; one, my are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words they, he are repeated.
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- summary of How Palestinians Keep Warm;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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