This is an analysis of the poem Getting There that begins with:
You take a final step and, look, suddenly
You're there. You've arrived...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abcbdefghdigdfffhdfajXbXiheXhfcceja
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 35,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11010111100 11101 101111100111 0101 11111011011 1011 001010111110 100101 010010101010 0101010 10011001001 010111 1110111010010 10110 110110111010 101110 11101011110100 010011 11111111110 100100 101111001 10011 11011111101 001010 01000110101 101010 11011101001 1111 1111001101 11010 01011010111 1101 111001110010010100101 010101110010 0101010100001010
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 1325
- Average number of words per stanza: 228
- Amount of lines: 35
- Average number of symbols per line: 37 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 7
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; you is repeated.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines there is repeated).
The literary device anadiplosis is detected in two or more neighboring lines. The word/phrase now connects the lines.
If you write a school or university poetry essay, you should Include in your explanation of the poem:
- summary of Getting There;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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