This is an analysis of the poem You and your whole race that begins with:

You and your whole race.
Look down upon the town in which you live...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: aXBaXBccccdbeded
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 16,
  • Closest metre: iambic trimeter
  • Сlosest rhyme: rima
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 11111 1101010111 1001 110111 10110 1001 1101100011 11101001101 0111010001 1110110101 101101111 111011110101 01101100111 1110111101 11111 1001
  • Amount of stanzas: 1
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 590
  • Average number of words per stanza: 102
  • Amount of lines: 16
  • Average number of symbols per line: 36 (medium-length strings)
  • Average number of words per line: 6
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; to, you are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words and, that are repeated.

    There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines there is repeated).

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  • summary of You and your whole race;
  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
  • critical appreciation.

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