This is an analysis of the poem As If 'It' Is In Command that begins with:
What is this,
That has come upon us and comfortably sits....
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabbab cacaca bcbXcXbbc
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,6,9,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rondeau rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 100 111011110001 1 0010011011001 0110101000100 101011010001 100100001110001 1010000111011100 1110101110001 1111010111010100 01110001010010 01011001011010 1001110010 111011010001 10100011 010000111010 1101010100010001 1001001111100 110101110001 00101001 1111111010010
- Amount of stanzas: 3
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 319
- Average number of words per stanza: 58
- Amount of lines: 21
- Average number of symbols per line: 45 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 8
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; of, to, with are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words with, has are repeated.
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- summary of As If 'It' Is In Command;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
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