This is an analysis of the poem Aren'T You All Neighbors? that begins with:
If I consume more than my neighbor,
And squander my feeding at their expense......
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ABCBXcB bcdcXb XDX ECF XDX ECF ABCBB XXXB
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 7,6,3,3,3,3,5,4,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 010111110 1101101101 01011000110 111110010011 101001110110 0111000101 1110011110 11101010001001 01101000101110 11101001111010 11100110101 1111010011101 110011101000111 1 101110 1101110010100101 1100100 11110110010011 11010001 1 101110 1101110010100101 1100100 11110110010011 11010001 010111110 1101101101 01011000110 111110010011 1110011110 1 1011101 1110011110
- Amount of stanzas: 9
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 144
- Average number of words per stanza: 27
- Amount of lines: 33
- Average number of symbols per line: 39 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 7
Mood of the speaker:
The speaker asks many questions. Perhaps, he or she is in confusion.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; my, i, to are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word i is repeated.
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- summary of Aren'T You All Neighbors?;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
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