This is an analysis of the poem Thanksgiving that begins with:
What a day to dismantle a roller-coaster.
Well, they are taking it down--...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abXcc daeXcb fXbffgX dXXegg
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 5,6,7,6,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: shakespearean sonnet
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 101001001010 1111001 01111001 1011101010 01001011001 110111 01010010 10110100 001001110 101111010 00111011101 10010111 1010110 10101011101 0101011101 01110111 0101101110 001011101 01110101 0011100101 011100110 11111110 0101111011 0100010101
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 225
- Average number of words per stanza: 44
- Amount of lines: 24
- 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.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and is repeated.
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- summary of Thanksgiving;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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