This is an analysis of the poem Tourists that begins with:
Visits of condolence is all we get from them.
They squat at the Holocaust Memorial,...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abbccXXabccXXc
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 14,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: sonnet with iambic trimeter or irregular meter
- Metre: 100010011100 11101010100 11111010101 111011010 0101 1111010 01001101 1101111 1110101 1110111 1110111 1111101 0110 01111
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 429
- Average number of words per stanza: 77
- Amount of lines: 14
- Average number of symbols per line: 30 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- 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; they, and are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words they, and are repeated.
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- summary of Tourists;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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