This is an analysis of the poem What's That that begins with:
Before it came inside
I had watched it from my kitchen window, ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aXbacbddeddefdb gfbgddgffgcdc
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 15,13,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 010101 1110011010 10110101 1011101 1101111 0101111001 11111011 1111000101 0111010101101 101010111011 1010001111011 1110101101110101 111101 0110101 1010 11111010011 01111001001 11010101 11011101 1011011001 1110101101 01010010101111 10100101001 11010110111 0101111111100101 111111 11000100101 101101
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 1180
- Average number of words per stanza: 231
- Amount of lines: 29
- Average number of symbols per line: 40 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 8
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; it, watched, or, and are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words watched, or are repeated.
If you write a school or university poetry essay, you should Include in your explanation of the poem:
- summary of What's That;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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