This is an analysis of the poem Another Language that begins with:
The whole world is flat
& I am round....
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abcadedcXaXX fdbbaeeXafaa gcaXgbXdad
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 12,12,10,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: shakespearean sonnet
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 01101 111 10100111 1010 10101 111001 101 010101 01010 10101 0101 1000100 0101 10101 010001 1111010011 1101 110111 1110101 10010101 01010 1010101 1110100010111 1101010001 0101 10101010 110101 110001 1101 1101 101010011 110110001 0101 10100
- Amount of stanzas: 3
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 277
- Average number of words per stanza: 49
- Amount of lines: 34
- Average number of symbols per line: 24 (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.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; to is repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words their, for are repeated.
The author used the same word the at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
If you write a school or university poetry essay, you should Include in your explanation of the poem:
- summary of Another Language;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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