This is an analysis of the poem Twenty-Pound Stone that begins with:
It nests in the hollow of my pelvis, I carry it with both hands, as if
offering my stomach, as if it were pulling me forward....
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ab cc d Xd b aa X d c X X cX cX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 2,2,1,2,1,2,1,1,1,1,1,2,2,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: heroic couplets
- Metre: 0100100110110001110 100110100010110 11011000111100 01111110 0111010 11100010010111001 01110010 0100111001001 010101010001111011 01011 000100010010001 1101010111110111 010111100 1010010011101 11101011110111 0110010111101010 101011111001 01110001000101110 00010101
- Amount of stanzas: 13
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 80
- Average number of words per stanza: 15
- Amount of lines: 19
- Average number of symbols per line: 54 (very long strings)
- Average number of words per line: 10
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; it, my, i, into are repeated.
The author used the same words it, if at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines it is repeated).
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- summary of Twenty-Pound Stone;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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