This is an analysis of the poem The Pact that begins with:
We played dolls in that house where Father staggered with the
Thanksgiving knife, where Mother wept at noon into her one ounce of...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aXXaXXbacXXacbdbefbfcXXbeed
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 27,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1110111101000 1101110111000110 1011010110 101110100 1010101 1001110 1011011 11110100 1010101 1010101101 10110110 10001101110 10101101101 11101101100 101011011 11010011111 1001101111 1101000111101 100110011 110111011 1011101 1001000100 011101110 1101010101 10111111 10011011 100010
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 1047
- Average number of words per stanza: 191
- Amount of lines: 27
- Average number of symbols per line: 38 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 7
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.
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- summary of The Pact;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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