This is an analysis of the poem Threes that begins with:
I was a boy when I heard three red words
a thousand Frenchmen died in the streets ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abca XXXXa bcdde ddXe
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,5,5,4,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 1101111111 010101001 11000100010011 11111 111010110100 1111011011 101110101010 11010111010100 11111011 0111111011 0110101111001 11111011011 10100101111101 1111 111001001110100001101 10100011000111111101 11111111100101111 1111111
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 216
- Average number of words per stanza: 41
- Amount of lines: 18
- Average number of symbols per line: 47 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 9
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; i, and are repeated.
The author used the same word i at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
If you write a school or university poetry essay, you should Include in your explanation of the poem:
- summary of Threes;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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