This is an analysis of the poem Atavism that begins with:
1
Sometimes in the open you look up...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XXabccdeffe XXbXdXXbdeXbaXba
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 11,16,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: shakespearean sonnet
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1 010010111 11111110 1101101 10101111 110011011 100101001 1110101001 10101001 11101111 0110100010 1 100101001100 11101011 01001110100 10011011 1110110 0101111 0100101010 01000100101 111010101 011010111 0111101111 1010100011 1111011 101010111110 1011101110101
- Amount of stanzas: 2
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 471
- Average number of words per stanza: 87
- Amount of lines: 28
- Average number of symbols per line: 33 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 6
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
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- summary of Atavism;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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