This is an analysis of the poem Poetry Reading that begins with:
Poetry Reading
To be a boxer, or not to be there...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: a bcbbac ddcc XXXece bbffc X X XgXXXX XXgX XXXXXX XXXXX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 1,6,4,6,5,1,1,6,4,6,5,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 10010 0001011001 1111111101 1100011101 0101010001 11010101010 01110011 0101110111 1111011101 10100011101 11010111 11000101010 1100110011 1101010101 010111011101 0111 110010100 0011011111 1101010111 1101111101 0111001101 110111 010110110011100 10100 101110001111 1010001001 1011110 111001000 100101110 1001010 10011010011001 100110110010 1010101 110010 1110011 11010011100 11010000100010 11011001001 110110 1010 1001011001011 1110100110101 101000111100 1101100111110 10001010
- Amount of stanzas: 11
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 167
- Average number of words per stanza: 27
- Amount of lines: 46
- Average number of symbols per line: 40 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 6
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; to is repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word the is repeated.
The poet repeated the same words muse, muzo at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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- summary of Poetry Reading;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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