This is an analysis of the poem High Talk that begins with:
PROCESSIONS that lack high stilts have nothing that catches the eye.
What if my great-granddad had a pair that were twenty foot high,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabbccdd Xeedd
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,5,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 010111111011001 101110101101011 110101111010110 1100110011011010 011110111101111 0110011011010101 01100010100101101 110111111101011 100111111011111010010010101001 110010011101001 110010011110111 110100100011111 1111011111101
- Amount of stanzas: 2
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 451
- Average number of words per stanza: 83
- Amount of lines: 13
- Average number of symbols per line: 69 (very long strings)
- Average number of words per line: 13
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; that, because, to, i, stilt, from are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word because is repeated.
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- summary of High Talk;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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