This is an analysis of the poem Yellow Glove that begins with:
What can a yellow glove mean in a world of motorcars and governments?
I was small, like everyone. Life was a string of precautions: Don’t kiss...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
The information we provided is prepared by means of a special computer program. Use the criteria sheet to understand greatest poems or improve your poetry analysis essay.
- Rhyme scheme: X a X X a X
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 1,1,1,1,1,1,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 110101100101011100 111110111010010110100111011110101110101101010110111010111110101110101 111111100101110101011110101111111100101101100011100111011111110100111101111111111110101111110101001011110111111111110001010101011110010110110010000001010010110110110111011100011101101001 0111110100011111110011111111111101010101111001101011110101101101010111111110011011011010101001101010011110010111010100100101 11000011111101001101001011011110110100110110110101101111101101010101011010110010101101 10010001101101
- Amount of stanzas: 6
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 349
- Average number of words per stanza: 69
- Amount of lines: 6
- Average number of symbols per line: 350 (very long strings)
- Average number of words per line: 69
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; i, t, to, don, and, in, be, would, my, one, it, you, could, glove, stream, had, yellow, gloves, like, of, when, how are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word i is repeated.
The author used the same word i at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
If you write a school or university poetry essay, you should Include in your explanation of the poem:
- summary of Yellow Glove;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
Good luck in your poetry interpretation practice!
Pay attention: the program cannot take into account all the numerous nuances of poetic technique while analyzing. We make no warranties of any kind, express or implied, about the completeness, accuracy, reliability and suitability with respect to the information.
