This is an analysis of the poem Picture Postcard From The Other World that begins with:
Since I don't know who will be reading
this or even if it will be read, I must ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abcacdeaefghichhgXbdfdbaeeXXaacfibXbjihfdfbdbcficbdfgfchkXhccjcdkbaaX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 69,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: shakespearean sonnet
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 111110010 01100000111 011110101 0010001010100 100111110 111000001111 1101011101 1100100110 111011111 010011101 001110100 110011101 10000110111 0110011010 001100101011 0101010001 01101100100 11000001100 1110101011 1111101011 110111011 1011011011 010100101 111110110 0000110011 110111010 11110011 01011001011 010111010 0011010110 10111100101 11001010111 10101010 10101001 1011101101 11110100011 1011111101 0011110101 1101000111 0010111011 011101111 10101001001 1001000101011 1101101111 1110100111 1111011011 01110101 01111011 111011001 101011111 111011101 1011111001 110111010 1001011001 101111101 1101011011 11010100010 0101011001 0111010010 111001001 1101010011 011110011 1110010101 0110101111 111111011 10111110 1001111101 101011010 101100100
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 2797
- Average number of words per stanza: 517
- Amount of lines: 69
- Average number of symbols per line: 40 (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; i, and, your, it, that are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word the is repeated.
If you write a school or university poetry essay, you should Include in your explanation of the poem:
- summary of Picture Postcard From The Other World;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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