This is an analysis of the poem A Wonderful World that begins with:
IT 'S a wonderful world when you sum it all up,
And we ought to be glad we are in it;...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ababccdeed efefgghddh ijijeecjjc
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 10,10,10,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 0101001111011 1110011100 01011011001 1010010101 001001 001001 110011110 1110111 110111 111110110 001001101001 111010110 11111001011 111010110 11011 101011 110111010 101011 101011 1011011010 001001111011 111101001 11011111001 11011001 11111 111001 101001010 1011101 011101 1001101111
- Amount of stanzas: 3
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 336
- Average number of words per stanza: 65
- Amount of lines: 30
- 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.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; it, and, things are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words in, and, some are repeated.
The author used the same word it's at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines things is repeated).
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- summary of A Wonderful World;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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