This is an analysis of the poem Marked With D. that begins with:

When the chilled dough of his flesh went in an oven
not unlike those he fuelled all his life, ...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: ababcXcXdedefXfb
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 16,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: rima
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: blank verse
  • Metre: 101100110110 1011110101 110010101010 11000010011 1100010101 11011111110 1110111001 110100011110 10101111001 1101011101 111001010101 1111011111 0101111011 1101011111 0101011101 11101101111
  • Amount of stanzas: 1
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 740
  • Average number of words per stanza: 143
  • Amount of lines: 16
  • Average number of symbols per line: 45 (strings are more long than medium ones)
  • Average number of words per line: 9
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; his, of, one are repeated.

    The literary device anadiplosis is detected in two or more neighboring lines. The word/phrase sorry connects the lines.

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  • summary of Marked With D.;
  • central theme;
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  • history of its creation;
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