This is an analysis of the poem Somebody Else that begins with:
Somebody wants a new bonnet to wear;
Somebody wants a new dress;...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ababcbcbdedefefeccccghghicicabab
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 32,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1101011001 1101011 1101011101 11001011 10001011011 10001011 11001011011 01011101 1111011011 11001101 11101011001 11001001 1111001001 11101001 11011001101 01011101 1101111001 11101011 0110101001 01101101 11111101001 11111101 001101001011 11101011 1101101011 11101001 11001111001 11001010 111011111011 11001001 10100111101 111101011
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 1189
- Average number of words per stanza: 234
- Amount of lines: 32
- Average number of symbols per line: 36 (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; somebody, new, and, to, her, my are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words somebody, and are repeated.
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- summary of Somebody Else;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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