This is an analysis of the poem On The Wire that begins with:
O God, take the sun from the sky!
It's burning me, scorching me up....
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ababcdXcdeedafaF gegecchihijjklklafaF jjaXcjcjaaff glgljjjmmXeejjhhmmahaf ccceeeeii dadahhjjnnofoF
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 16,20,12,22,9,14,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11101001 01011011 111111 1001101 010011 110111 110101 1001011 01001111 0100101 1110011 0101101 1001001 1010010010 1011111 11010010 00101111 1001011 110101 101101 1001011 1001011 100101 111101 001101 001101 100111 1001001 100101 100110 101101 100101 100101 01010010 1011111 11010010 101111 101101 00101111 1011000 1101101 1101111 101111 100101 1111100 0101011 1001010 101010010 0110111 110111 101101 101101 1011011 100111 110111 110101 111011 100110 101111 111011 101001 101001 101111 1001011 101111 111001 1111101 1110101 110111 11010010 0101001 111011 0111111 0111101 111101 0101001 0101001 111101 111111 100101 111011 0110101 0101111 1101111 0100101 1110101 1110101 110101 0101101 010101 1010010 111010 11010010
- Amount of stanzas: 6
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 469
- Average number of words per stanza: 84
- Amount of lines: 94
- Average number of symbols per line: 29 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 5
Mood of the speaker:
There are many exclamation marks in the poem. The speaker is excited. He or she has strong feelings on the subject that is described in the poem.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; my, it's, and, night, i are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words it's, is, that, under, night, i, a are repeated.
The poet repeated the same word wire at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
If you write a school or university poetry essay, you should Include in your explanation of the poem:
- summary of On The Wire;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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