This is an analysis of the poem Head Against The Walls that begins with:
There were only a few of them
In all the earth...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aXbcdef cghXidhjkdbefldjkl lijjihXjejiij ahXgcl XX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 7,18,13,6,2,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 10100100 0101 1111101 11101 01 1110111010 011110 111 11011 10 1111 110100 11111010 1010 11001010101 1101010 1110010 1101010 110110 1110001 1110101 11011001 110011 11011011 1010111 0101001 00111111 011111 11101110 1010101 0111010 01011 010101 111010 011110 110101 0101111 0110 10011001 1110110 11011 111 1111111 10101 00101101110 111110111000
- Amount of stanzas: 5
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 249
- Average number of words per stanza: 48
- Amount of lines: 46
- Average number of symbols per line: 26 (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; their is repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word in is repeated.
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- summary of Head Against The Walls;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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