This is an analysis of the poem Shirt that begins with:
The back, the yoke, the yardage. Lapped seams,
The nearly invisible stitches along the collar...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aba cdd bea eaf ghg hhi adf dea Xig XfX Xdb aab bea cXg dieXahg
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,7,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 010101011 01001001001010 1001110101010 100101110111 1101011011110 01000100001 01110111010010 010010010010 010100101001 10110100011010 11011011001 101111011001 01000100101 11101110101 1001001101 010010011101 1101010101001 010011110100 0101110101 0101111111 00011101111 111001010101 11010011111 11010100110 1111001011000 100101010100 010101100111 1001101011 10101111 10100100110 0101110010101010 00111010101 101010100010 101000101110 01010101001 101010010 010010010010010 1010010010010 110101101001 1101010001 1001101001010 110101101011 1110111101 1011111011100 10010010101 01010100100100 10011101101 0100100100101
- Amount of stanzas: 16
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 141
- Average number of words per stanza: 25
- Amount of lines: 48
- 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; and, he, his, up, in, its are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words the, and are repeated.
If you write a school or university poetry essay, you should Include in your explanation of the poem:
- summary of Shirt;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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