This is an analysis of the poem The Only News I Know that begins with:
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The Only News I know... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: X XXX XXX aXa XXX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 1,3,3,3,3,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1 010111 010011 010100 0101110 0111100 0110000 010111 0101010 10000010 0101110 1100010 11010
- Amount of stanzas: 5
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 61
- Average number of words per stanza: 9
- Amount of lines: 13
- Average number of symbols per line: 23 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 4
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
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- summary of The Only News I Know;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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