This is an analysis of the poem Without Looking that begins with:
Either at my friend's daughter's
sixteen-year-old body dumped...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abbbcd cXeXef gbaaae fhffhgg dcgXgbX Xc
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,6,6,7,7,2,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: shakespearean sonnet
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1011110 0111101 101111 11011 110101111 1101 1101100 010010110 10010 110 010011110 1001 11101 1110101 1011011110 01010101 10011 1111110 100100 0111 10110 11101 1000001 111 11101 100101 0110010 1001101 10001010 1011 101111 01011 0100010
- Amount of stanzas: 6
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 134
- Average number of words per stanza: 26
- Amount of lines: 34
- Average number of symbols per line: 23 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 5
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; to is repeated.
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- summary of Without Looking;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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