This is an analysis of the poem What I Understood that begins with:
When I was a child I understood everything
about, for example, futility. Standing for hours...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XaaXbXcaXXbbcddXcedXde
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 22,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 111011101101 011010010010110 10111111011 11111101011001 01011101011 0110011100110 11011011000101 0100110101010 0101111110 111100111010 111110111 010101110110 010101001010 11111111111 1011011110011 0101110101 110011010010010 101001001001010 10111001 10100100100101 0110 10111111010
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 993
- Average number of words per stanza: 174
- Amount of lines: 22
- Average number of symbols per line: 44 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 8
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; for, i, and are repeated.
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- summary of What I Understood;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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