This is an analysis of the poem What Has Happened? that begins with:
The industrialist is having his aeroplane serviced.
The priest is wondering what he said in his sermon eight weeks ago...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XXXabXcdcbdddaXX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 16,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 001000010010010 01010011100101101 0110 0100110110110111 1001011010 001011010010011 0111011001001010 010010110010010 01011010110 11010100110 1101001101 1010010100 101101001111010 100100100010 01010110110 11110
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 768
- Average number of words per stanza: 125
- Amount of lines: 16
- Average number of symbols per line: 47 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 8
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
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- summary of What Has Happened?;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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