This is an analysis of the poem Jennifer Connelly Sestina that begins with:
The boy returns home with blue hair.
The dog understands everything we say....
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abcdde eadbdc Xedabd dXbead ddacXb bdedcaXacd
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,6,6,6,6,10,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: heroic couplets
- Metre: 01011011 0110110111 10101100101 01110101 010010011011011 01010101011 111011100100001 1110001100111 01001011001001 01011011001 101110111011 111100100111 1111010011 1010101111101 01011100101011 010111001011 0110111001111 001001001001111 011011101 1111011111 0100011111101 11010010011 10101011001001 101001010101011 111001111011 101011101011 10010100111110001 1001010110101 010101111010 101111111111 110010111101 111010110101 110100110111 0011000101101001 011111111110111 00010100101111101 11001101011011011 0011101101101001001 1111101101001111
- Amount of stanzas: 7
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 289
- Average number of words per stanza: 56
- Amount of lines: 39
- Average number of symbols per line: 51 (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; his, to, and, of are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words the, of are repeated.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines dream, god, closed, say, hair are repeated).
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