This is an analysis of the poem Soil that begins with:
we've ignored eachother for a long time
and I'm strictly an indoor man...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abAB cdeef bbb XgXXaehic jjj cbdhkib fXf hbXggkcXabAB
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,5,3,9,3,7,3,12,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1011001011 10101111 1010110011 101111111 111011001 1111011101 10100101010 11000010 10101 1111101 01011101 1111001 11000110101 011011 1011001000 111000 11011011 11000110 11111110 111111010 0111111 1111101 1010111 11011101 1110111010 111101010 11101110 01100 1101010 011011 111010010 110111 1111110 1110001 11100 11000101 1111 1101010001 0110111 1010010 10001 10101001011 10100101 1010110011 101111111
- Amount of stanzas: 9
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 152
- Average number of words per stanza: 29
- Amount of lines: 45
- 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; and is repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words we, i are repeated.
If you write a school or university poetry essay, you should Include in your explanation of the poem:
- summary of Soil;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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