This is an analysis of the poem The Art of Losing that begins with:

It begins with the death
of the childhood pet -...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: XaaXbcdefbaXgcbebhiaifXbcagaabbjeekjekaXighacbgeeddXgabdegejkaddebgehh
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 70,
  • Closest metre: iambic trimeter
  • Сlosest rhyme: limerick
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 001001 00111 01101001 110111 1111 11101 00101 110010 011011 00100101 101001 0110100 0010 010001 111011 0101 10101 111010 11000101 010001 01000101 011 11110 1010001 00101101 0110001 011010101 101001 00101 1001111 111001 10101001 01111001 1111101 1010001 010111101 0101 10101001 110 10101 0110011 10011001 010 1111001 11000101 1010111 1101101 1010101 1010110 1110111 0010100101 011111 1100101011 1111001 010000111 10111110 0100010 011001 11101 00010101 11110 111 11101 001100 110111 10101 01011101 0100110100 010 100010
  • Amount of stanzas: 1
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 1824
  • Average number of words per stanza: 341
  • Amount of lines: 70
  • Average number of symbols per line: 25 (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; to, your are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words of, the, to are repeated.

    There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines nothing is repeated).

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  • summary of The Art of Losing;
  • central theme;
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  • history of its creation;
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