This is an analysis of the poem At The Back Of Progress that begins with:

The fellow who sits in the air-conditioned office
is the one who in his youth raped ...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: abcbX cadef bcgahac abaggaXfX cXeXX hbXgfgda
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 5,5,7,9,5,8,
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 0101100101010 00110011 0101111 11111001001001 1000111001000 01101 11101001001 000100010 10111101 010110101001110 0010101110101 1011 110010 1 011 1 101010101001000 0010101011 11111001 1111101001 0100100 1001010111010 01001011101 1100011111 01011011110 010101 10110010 1011 101 100101 1010010 11111100101 10100010 01010010010 11111101011100100 01011010010 011110001010 101101101111 01100110101101
  • Amount of stanzas: 4
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 412
  • Average number of words per stanza: 62
  • Amount of lines: 41
  • Average number of symbols per line: 39 (medium-length strings)
  • 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; his, for are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word his is repeated.

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  • summary of At The Back Of Progress;
  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
  • critical appreciation.

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