This is an analysis of the poem Hugging The Jukebox that begins with:
On an island the soft hue of memory,
moss green, kerosene yellow, drifting, mingling...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abXcdecXdfbfd bacdcge Xhijgcdg cXjfX egddchdcjddc iXhgbXj
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 13,7,8,5,12,7,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: enclosed rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11100110100 111011010100 0010101 0111110 11010101 1011011110 01010111 101011101111 1011101 11010110011001 11101001110 101001 101010101010010101 01101111 11110101011110 011101110010 01010111010 1001111011 11101010010010101 11011101010 10110100111 00101101001 10111010110 111110011 100110111001101 10110111 111010010111 0111010101 111010111101 10010111110 11110110011 1101110010011 111010101 1110111111 1111010011110010 0110110101011 010011011101100111 0110100101111 11110001 10111001 10111101011 1101011101010 01101000100110110 10111101 0101001010101001 11010010110100111 010101011100110 1010111010111001 00101001010100110 101101 100010
- Amount of stanzas: 7
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 361
- Average number of words per stanza: 66
- Amount of lines: 51
- Average number of symbols per line: 49 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 9
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; he, in, to are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words how, the, for are repeated.
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- summary of Hugging The Jukebox;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
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