This is an analysis of the poem Adolescence I that begins with:
In water-heavy nights behind grandmother's porch
We knelt in the tickling grasses and whispered:...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XaXaXXbXXbX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 11,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 010101011101 11001010110 101101111001 1011111 11111 111101 0111001 01011011110010 111101 001011 0101001
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 393
- Average number of words per stanza: 70
- Amount of lines: 11
- Average number of symbols per line: 35 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 6
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
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- summary of Adolescence I;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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