This is an analysis of the poem History Of The Airplane that begins with:
And the Wright brothers said they thought they had invented
something that could make peace on earth...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abcXcX aXcd ced eXX afeb gaXX XagXca afhXeehh
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,4,3,3,4,4,6,8,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1011011111010 10111111 0011011100 111001001111101 00010011010001111 1011111010 1101010011011101 10101101010010010 10110100101011101 10111001 1101010101100100 01011010010010100101 0101010100111001011 1101010101110001 111010101111110010 10101011001011101010 11110111011010011 111110110110110 1111010100011111 11110101 101100101000110 10110101011011001 1101101010110 1 11110110011110001 10011111011111 1011110100010 1011001001101101011 1000110010101000101 0011001 10101010101 11111000100 1010101 1101110 1110 101 101
- Amount of stanzas: 9
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 212
- Average number of words per stanza: 39
- Amount of lines: 37
- Average number of symbols per line: 51 (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; of, and are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word and is repeated.
The author used the same word and at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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- summary of History Of The Airplane;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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