This is an analysis of the poem Sacrifices that begins with:
All winter the fire devoured everything --
tear-stained elegies, old letters, diaries, dead flowers....
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abcdeafbXgbfbbeafdchXaebfaaijccakbgfklgXlicffebkhbcj Xj
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 52,2,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: limerick
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 110010010101 11100110100110 11010001 110010111 11000101111 00010110 11011 1100111010 11010110111 11101010 1110 101 0010010 11111 10100101 1110 110110010 101100 0100111 100111 111100111 10111110 1111111 110111001 1111111 10010001 10110 01001011 11010100010 1101001 101000 1101101 111101010 11110 111110 11111 011010 0010111 110101 101101 011111 10110011 11100111 100100011 10101 1100011 101110110110 1111011010001110 0111010001101 110101 110 110101 0100010
- Amount of stanzas: 2
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 845
- Average number of words per stanza: 149
- Amount of lines: 54
- Average number of symbols per line: 30 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 6
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; my, and, with are repeated.
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- summary of Sacrifices;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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