This is an analysis of the poem After They Have Been Fed that begins with:
No duty calls,
To perpetuate an influx......
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abc aabXd bcba bdca baecebX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 3,5,4,4,7,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rondeau rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1101 00101111 001001 1101101 01000101 1001010010 1010001 01000100 11000100100 0110100001 01010100 00101010 010101 1001000100 100101 1010101010101 1 00011 01011101 11101101001 1110101 001001 10110111110
- Amount of stanzas: 5
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 144
- Average number of words per stanza: 23
- Amount of lines: 23
- Average number of symbols per line: 31 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 5
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, of are repeated.
The author used the same word no at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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- summary of After They Have Been Fed;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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