This is an analysis of the poem What We Want that begins with:
We have scores of temperance men,
Bold and earnest, brave and true, ... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ababccb cdcdXeX fefeXXe
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 7,7,7,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11101001 1110111 1000111 1110111 111 0111 1110101 1110111 1010101 1111111 1111111 10110 1111 1011010100 1111101 1011101 1010111 0011101 1011 111100 1111101
- Amount of stanzas: 3
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 210
- Average number of words per stanza: 37
- Amount of lines: 21
- Average number of symbols per line: 29 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 5
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and is repeated.
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- summary of What We Want;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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