This is an analysis of the poem One Third Of The Calendar that begins with:
In January everything freezes.
We have two children. Both are she'ses....
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aXbb Xacc ddbb aacXXac
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,7,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: limerick
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 0101010110 111101110 00110101 11011101 010100101 11010101 10010101 010110101 100101110 101101010 11010110110 01101001010 1001001010 1101011010 01101110101 1101 101 111 01
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 152
- Average number of words per stanza: 29
- Amount of lines: 19
- Average number of symbols per line: 31 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- 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; in is repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word and is repeated.
The author used the same word in at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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- summary of One Third Of The Calendar;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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