This is an analysis of the poem Exposure that begins with:
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1 Our brains ache, in the merciless iced east winds that knife us ... ... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: a bccbd Xddee fggad bffbd X dhhdi Xedhi jchji bkkbd
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 1,5,5,5,5,1,5,5,5,5,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1 111100100111111 11011010101010 1110101110000100 110110101010010 111010 11011011101010 11101000101010 1100100010010010 1111011001101 1111101 1010100010101 11101111111110 11100010101010 10111011100101 111010 11001010101010 1110101110101 10100101111101 111010011101101 111010 1 111010011101110 111011101011111 1100101011111 11001010101010 10011110 110111110011010 1010111010101 111001001010101 1101111110111 11110110 11101110111101 1110111111111 111010001110101 1111111111101 11101110 1010101010111 11001011100111 1010010111001101 1110111011111 111010
- Amount of stanzas: 10
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 211
- Average number of words per stanza: 38
- Amount of lines: 42
- Average number of symbols per line: 50 (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; and is repeated.
The poet repeated the same words happens, dying at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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- summary of Exposure;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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