This is an analysis of the poem Making A Fist that begins with:
We forget that we are all dead men conversing wtih dead men.
—Jorge Luis Borges...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ab XXccba XXdeX ffdXde
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 2,6,5,6,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: enclosed rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 101111111010111 100110 101110110100 110110101 0100101011001 111011001 10111010010101 1101010110111 11110111001 11110 11010011 01100110 111110101 01011010110 0101111000 101110001 1101111110 1100001011110 101100111
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 210
- Average number of words per stanza: 38
- Amount of lines: 19
- Average number of symbols per line: 43 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 8
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
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- summary of Making A Fist;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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