This is an analysis of the poem Then that begins with:
A solitary apartment house, the last one
before the boulevard ends and a dusty road ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abcXdaadbeffeeghXbaagbbbbcfhafhXhaeijcdkjXdeXidkcceaegefaeeeheXjebiaXX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 70,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 010100101011 010101110101 10111011011 1010101010 01001010101 0010100100101 1101010110011 1111010101 110111010011 010101110101 01010111011 110010101101 010000110010 1100101010010 0101110101101 010001101011 100011001001 110010101011 111011010111 11111111101 0111011110 1111110110 1101011111 00101110010 100011010101 11101100101 11100101111 00011010001 01011110111 0101111101 110111010101 1110111111 01100010101 11111010010 100101001111 1011111101 0101001011101 11000101001 1010110111 1101010010 1100101010011 1010110101010 0111010111 0111100111001 01011010100100 001011111001 01001100011 101001101110 100111010101 10101001001 011110101 001110101010 101100011111 111110111010 0010110101 0101111101 001011011010 1110010110 0111010101 010101111 1111111010 10001010110 0111001011 11100100101 11110110101 101010110101 11111000101 111101110 01010110001 11111110111
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 3297
- Average number of words per stanza: 609
- Amount of lines: 70
- Average number of symbols per line: 46 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 9
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; her, she, in, of are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words of, to are repeated.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines work is repeated).
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- summary of Then;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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