This is an analysis of the poem Common Dust that begins with:
And who shall separate the dust
What later we shall be:...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aXbX Xcbc XdXdXaaba
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,9,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11110101 110110 11010101 110100 01010101 010101 11010001 011001 11010100 110101 11011000 011101 11110101 011101 11110101 011001
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 123
- Average number of words per stanza: 23
- Amount of lines: 16
- Average number of symbols per line: 30 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- 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; , here are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words the, here are repeated.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines is repeated).
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- summary of Common Dust;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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