This is an analysis of the poem As It Was Written that begins with:
Earth, earth,
riding your merry-go-round...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abcdXeceeX fegdece gXfefcbfae
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 10,7,10,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: shakespearean sonnet
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11 1011011 01010 1001 100010110 100011 11010001 111101 11011110 11101110101 1111 100011 11100001 010100010 101100010 10111 0101111 10111 010100 1101111 1001101 10010 101 10011 1100111 001011 01111
- Amount of stanzas: 3
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 243
- Average number of words per stanza: 45
- Amount of lines: 27
- Average number of symbols per line: 26 (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.
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- summary of As It Was Written;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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