This is an analysis of the poem Modern Talk that begins with:
There was a time when people taked said with their mouth
How they talk and it doesn't mean a thing it's called the modern talk...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XabbccdefF eXggXff eeXfF ddXgff XXhha
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 10,7,5,6,5,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1101110101011 1111010101010101 1100101010 011011111110 1111101101 101110101 111111111110 11111111110111110 111101111 1111110101 11011101110010 111110111110 11101010101 1110101111 1111111111101110 11110111111 1111110101 1101111110010 1111011001010 1111111111010101 01111011 1111110101 11010110100100 1110101010101 100001010000100101001010 101010101010 11111011101 111110101 11010001110110 1011011100 101001110101 11010100111 11111111111101
- Amount of stanzas: 5
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 327
- Average number of words per stanza: 67
- Amount of lines: 33
- Average number of symbols per line: 49 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 10
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; za, voo, va, and, huhuh are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word and is repeated.
The author used the same word and at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
The poet repeated the same word again at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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- summary of Modern Talk;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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