This is an analysis of the poem Shame that begins with:
May be, in my previous a-being,
I’ve cut the throats of my Mom and Dad,...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abac bdXd XdXd cXcX eeee
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1001100010 110101111 0001101010 1101010011 011110101 11111101 101011111 111010101 011000101 01101111 101110001 11110101 1111101010 1111100011 1010101010 101010101 1010100010 11101011 0110100010 101010101
- Amount of stanzas: 5
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 152
- Average number of words per stanza: 30
- Amount of lines: 20
- Average number of symbols per line: 37 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 7
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
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- summary of Shame;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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