This is an analysis of the poem The World Is Great that begins with:
The world is great!
The birds fly from me;... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: AbabXC AdXdXC AbXbaC AeXebC
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,6,6,6,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: shakespearean sonnet
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 0101 01101 011101 0101 1101 11010111110 0101 110101 0101 101111 10110 1010111110 0101 011101 1101010 111 1111 11010111110 0101 010111 111101 1111 01111 1010111110
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 145
- Average number of words per stanza: 30
- Amount of lines: 24
- Average number of symbols per line: 23 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 5
Mood of the speaker:
There are many exclamation marks in the poem. The speaker is excited. He or she has strong feelings on the subject that is described in the poem.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and is repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word the is repeated.
The author used the same word the at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
The poet repeated the same word lonely at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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- summary of The World Is Great;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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