This is an analysis of the poem Germs that begins with:
FORMS, qualities, lives, humanity, language, thoughts,
The ones known, and the ones unknown--the ones on the stars,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aXXaXbabbbXX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 12,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 110010100101 0111010101101 01011110100 1010110011100100 110110 101011101010101 01 11110111100111011 01010011011101111 101011 101010111010010 1
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 626
- Average number of words per stanza: 95
- Amount of lines: 12
- Average number of symbols per line: 51 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 8
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; ones, and, of are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word the is repeated.
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- summary of Germs;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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