This is an analysis of the poem A Little History that begins with:
Some people find out they are Jews.
They can't believe it....
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abacadeafcgXhagibecfXjbaabiciakbiclbXkXieXXkckmgamanXlliglhoedXXackmegjoXgklhkaabbkhebnbabbgbg
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 94,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: limerick
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11011111 11010 1111101 110111011101001 1011011 101101010 1101010110111 11011 1101010110011101 011010010111101 011001101010111 0101011010 11100111 1111111101 01010100101010 00110101010010010100 1100101100011 111100101010011 1011 111101101101111 101 001011011000 1100101011 11101100010011 110001011111 11111 111010101101011010 011101 111010010110 101010 1101101000100 11 1101011010110 1110001010110111 1111011101111011 1011111100 0100101111111101 010111011010011010 0101001110101101 111001001100 110011010100101 01001000 11100101 1110011001000101110 101000010011010111 101010 11001010001010111001 0110 11111111010110 10 10110101 011010 1001101100101010 11101 101111010010100 1000111101010010 10 11011101001010 10100101101 0101110010101101001 001101010101011 1010110110 10111000101010001 10100 001101101111 11010010101011011 01001101101110010 010010010100 110011100101011 10 10111001110111 01 01001001001100101010 101010100111101110 0011111011010 1010100100100 10001011011101000 01010100101010 01011110010101 1 10111001100101101 10010110001101101 11101010001000100 0110110111001100 1110111101101 01111101001000101 010100 010100100101001 01010100 111100 1110 110111111110010 0100101010100100100011 0010100001101011
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 4491
- Average number of words per stanza: 787
- Amount of lines: 94
- 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.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; they, to, or, them, he are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words they, the, how, to are repeated.
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- summary of A Little History;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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