This is an analysis of the poem Tattoo that begins with:
The light is like a spider.
It crawls over the water....
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabcXc cXbXXcab
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,8,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: rondeau rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 0101010 0110010 0110010001 0110111 11011 011 01011 110 0011101 101011 11100011 10100010 10010001
- Amount of stanzas: 3
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 114
- Average number of words per stanza: 23
- Amount of lines: 13
- 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; it, crawls, webs, of are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word it is repeated.
The author used the same word the at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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- summary of Tattoo;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
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