This is an analysis of the poem Last News About The Little Box that begins with:

The little box which contains the world
Fell in love with herself...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: abAC cbAC X cac XbX X
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,1,3,3,1,
  • Closest metre: iambic trimeter
  • Сlosest rhyme: enclosed rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 010110101 101001 101 1010101 010100101 10101001 101 1010101 11011010 0100101 10001 011100101 111001010 01010101001 0011 1111011
  • Amount of stanzas: 6
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 73
  • Average number of words per stanza: 14
  • Amount of lines: 16
  • Average number of symbols per line: 27 (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; little, box are repeated.

    The author used the same word the at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.

    There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines box is repeated).

    The poet repeated the same word box at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.

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  • summary of Last News About The Little Box;
  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
  • critical appreciation.

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