This is an analysis of the poem The Motor Car that begins with:
The motor car is sullen, like a thing that should not be;
The motor car is master of Smart Society.... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abccDddc baeeDdde ffccDddc ffaaddda ggccdddc hhiidddi
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,8,8,8,8,8,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: enclosed rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 01010101011110 0101010010100 1101010110101 1111010010101 1111010 0101010 1101010 010101 0101011111100 11110111011110 01010101010101 01110101010101 1111010 0101010 0111010 010101 010101001011101 01010101010001 01010101011001 1111010010101 1111010 1111010 0111010 010101 01010101010101 01010100010101 010101111111001 101110101010101 0111010 1111010 1111010 010101 0101010110011 0100110010011 01100110011101 1101010011101 1111010 1111010 1111010 011101 1111110111101 11111100110111 1111110111101 11010101011101 1101010 0100010 1111010 010101
- Amount of stanzas: 6
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 347
- Average number of words per stanza: 68
- Amount of lines: 48
- Average number of symbols per line: 42 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 9
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; caesar, s, column, for, it, and, car, motor, in, its are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words the, twas, and, its 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.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines column is repeated).
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- summary of The Motor Car;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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