This is an analysis of the poem What Were They Like? that begins with:
Did the people of Viet Nam
use lanterns of stone?...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abccdXeaf bccagcXXgdXhccccaefgeh
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 9,22,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: ballad stanza
- Metre: 00100011 11001 0111010 0100010001 010101010 01111100 11101100 1111010 01010011110 1111101 00101010010 110010101 011101001010 11011001 10111 1100100011 010101100011 10101 001010010 101011 101101 110100100010 101010111001100 101011111 111110 1111001 101101 01111101 01010110010 0101011 11100101
- Amount of stanzas: 2
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 544
- Average number of words per stanza: 95
- Amount of lines: 31
- Average number of symbols per line: 34 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 6
Mood of the speaker:
The speaker asks many questions. Perhaps, he or she is in confusion.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; of, they are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word there is repeated.
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- summary of What Were They Like?;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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