This is an analysis of the poem The Banalities that begins with:
The contest is over. I lost, you lost.
I had an intensely anatomical body...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XXXa XaXX Xa
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,2,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 0100101111 1110101010010 1100110001 1101111010 11001111010 101010100101 101111010111 1111011111 001011010010010 111001000100101
- Amount of stanzas: 3
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 148
- Average number of words per stanza: 28
- Amount of lines: 10
- Average number of symbols per line: 44 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 8
Mood of the speaker:
The speaker asks many questions. Perhaps, he or she is in confusion.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; you, i are repeated.
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- summary of The Banalities;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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