This is an analysis of the poem Present that begins with:

This woman vomiting her
hunger over the world...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: XabXcdeXXefffgfebh ebXdahafcfXiijbXgffXjkfXffjfegkggg
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 18,34,
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: rima
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 0101000 101001 0101010010 011001 010101011 1010011 1010111 01000000000 101001000 010101000101 10011 0101101 1010 01010100 01001001011 010110 101110110 111010100 1011 101110 10111011 101110100111 1011 111100 101011 111101 11111111 100101011 10010000 1101111111 11111101 1011 0101 1111 01011110100 01111101 111 1110000 101 1110 1001110010 11100000 1010110 1011101 1101111 101010010 011 1110 01010100 100000010 1110101010 1010000110
  • Amount of stanzas: 2
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 765
  • Average number of words per stanza: 130
  • Amount of lines: 52
  • Average number of symbols per line: 28 (strings are less long than medium ones)
  • Average number of words per line: 5
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; my, hay, ya, walking are repeated.

    There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines ya, walking are repeated).

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  • summary of Present;
  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
  • critical appreciation.

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