This is an analysis of the poem Lokja that begins with:
On the porch are withered flowers
Not a soul, a deathly silence,...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abXc adae Xafg ddXb Xcfa fXff X aadb aefb XhXX bdad feff gXcXXfhff
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,1,4,4,4,4,4,9,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 10111010 10101010 11011110 10101010 010101110 10101010 11101110 101011010 10011011 10101110 11101000 101010101 11101010 11101010 00101010 10101010 111001100 11101010 11101010 10100110 11101010 11101010 11101110 10101010 1 010010011 11101110 10111010 10101010 00101011 11101010 10101110 00111110 11101110 10101010 00101010 10101110 011000101 10101110 00101110 10101010 10101010 10100011 10100110 10101000 00101110 10111010 00111010 11101010 01101010 10001010 11101110 10110110
- Amount of stanzas: 14
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 128
- Average number of words per stanza: 23
- Amount of lines: 53
- Average number of symbols per line: 33 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 6
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; to, her are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words she, she'd, as are repeated.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines her is repeated).
If you write a school or university poetry essay, you should Include in your explanation of the poem:
- summary of Lokja;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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