This is an analysis of the poem Ravens Hiding in a Shoe that begins with:
There is something men and women living in houses
Don't understand. The old alchemists standing...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aXa bXa Xaa Xaa XXa Xba
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 3,3,3,3,3,3,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rondeau rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 1010111010010 11010110010 11110100101 10111011101 0111111010 1111110101 110110110100 11111110101001 1101001010101 10011011101 01110100111 1110010101 0101100101 10111010101 1101001010101 1011011011 1011011011 1101110101
- Amount of stanzas: 6
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 141
- Average number of words per stanza: 25
- Amount of lines: 18
- Average number of symbols per line: 46 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 8
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; we is repeated.
The poet repeated the same word times at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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- summary of Ravens Hiding in a Shoe;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
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