This is an analysis of the poem By Their Works that begins with:
Who cleaned up the Last Supper?
These would be my people....
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XaXXbXbXacdeeXfbXggXchfcXadecdXXgXeh
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 36,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1110110 110110 1011010 10000101 1001 011010 1001 01010110 011010 10011 0101101 10111 01111 11011 1101 01010 101001 11010 1101 11010 1101 00010 101011 01011 10111 0010001 111 11101 10011 0111 11000 11101 10001 1111 1111 01
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 803
- Average number of words per stanza: 145
- Amount of lines: 36
- Average number of symbols per line: 21 (very short strings)
- Average number of words per line: 4
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
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- summary of By Their Works;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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