This is an analysis of the poem What Arizona Needs that begins with:
Has some prospect better pleased you?
Did you ever lift your eye- ... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XabaXcXcdc efefggXgXg ehbhgdgdgd hiXihhhhbh
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 10,10,10,10,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11101011 0110111 10101010 0010101 10111100 1010101 11111010 1010011 11011100 010001 01101010 10100101 10101010 1110101 00101010 0011111 111001011 0011101 11001010 10100111 11111010 1010011 10100110 1010001 10101010 1011101 10001010 1010011 11111010 1010101 10101010 101111 11111010 1000101 10111010 1001111 11100110 1111101 11100110 1010001
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 302
- Average number of words per stanza: 53
- Amount of lines: 40
- Average number of symbols per line: 29 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 5
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; as, men are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words ever, of, men are repeated.
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- summary of What Arizona Needs;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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