This is an analysis of the poem The Smiths, As I Understand Them that begins with:
There's a box at the hospital in which to deposit
children unlikely to win the Nobel Prize....
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ab cde bbbXb a X fbXg hf XibX cfei eXefafXdgbXdcXbceiha
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 2,3,5,1,1,4,2,4,4,20,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 10110110010010 10010010011 11011111 11010010100 101110 111111 101001100010 10101101101 11110101 11101 111 10010101001 10111010011 0111010011 011111 00101001010 0111011011 110110 10010110111 1111110100010 10101111011 10101 1101100 011111 01111110111 1010111 01010100010 00101000101001 0011001011 1101101 10110101101 110010011001 10101 1001000100100 110101010 11011011 11011011 110100110100 1010101 001001100 000111110 110101100100 0010101110 010101001111 01011100 011011110
- Amount of stanzas: 10
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 178
- Average number of words per stanza: 33
- Amount of lines: 46
- Average number of symbols per line: 38 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 7
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
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- summary of The Smiths, As I Understand Them;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
Good luck in your poetry interpretation practice!
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