This is an analysis of the poem Autobiography (Polish It Like A Piece Of Silver) that begins with:
I am standing in the cemetery at Byrds, Texas.
What did Judy say? 'God-forsaken is beautiful, too.'...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aXaXX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 5,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: cinquain
- Metre: 11100010101110 10101101001001 01011111010111 100101001001010 101011100101010
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 256
- Average number of words per stanza: 53
- Amount of lines: 5
- Average number of symbols per line: 50 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 11
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
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- summary of Autobiography (Polish It Like A Piece Of Silver);
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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