This is an analysis of the poem A Taste Of Inner City Knowledge that begins with:

Most that go to college,
Without first experiencing to obtain......

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: ABACDD eebeeffd gXegafXgedf ABACDDdaagfcXf
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,8,11,14,
  • Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: couplets
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 111010 01101000001 010101010 010110101 110110100 010010101 101001010 100101 011110101 1010001 0110101001 0110010010 01100010 0100010010110 1101001010101 1010010 1010001010001 0100100010101 110101010 11010101 0101101110 1011100100110 0101001001 00010011100 001010010000010 111010 01101000001 010101010 010110101 110110100 010010101 100101 10101010 111010 010101001 0101011 1011001001 11011010 00101
  • Amount of stanzas: 4
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 363
  • Average number of words per stanza: 57
  • Amount of lines: 39
  • Average number of symbols per line: 36 (medium-length strings)
  • Average number of words per line: 6
  • Mood of the speaker:

    There are many three dots in the poem. Readers should think of the author's idea together with the pensive speaker.

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

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word the is repeated.

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

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  • summary of A Taste Of Inner City Knowledge;
  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
  • critical appreciation.

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