This is an analysis of the poem Everybody’s Doing It that begins with:
We’re all buying Spitfires
As fast as we can buy...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XabaccXXddddXXa XeXeeeaaXaffXXe bgbg
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 15,15,4,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 0110100 111111 1001101 110001 01111011 01110111 01110111 01011100 01110111 11111111 01110111 01110111 1110100 1011100 111111 1110100 010111 1011100 010101 01011101 11001101 01011101 11010101 01010110 01110101 01010101 110101111 11110100 1011100 011101 111010 1111111 1101010 011101
- Amount of stanzas: 3
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 354
- Average number of words per stanza: 67
- Amount of lines: 34
- Average number of symbols per line: 30 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 6
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and, who, they, spitfires, all, re are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word the is repeated.
The author used the same word they at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines spitfires is repeated).
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- summary of Everybody’s Doing It;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
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