This is an analysis of the poem Efforts To Unite that begins with:
What are those people protesting,
Against? ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abcd ec ce fgX ea fgfbcgbhehX iibcXdde XecebdbXX eb eeddX Xi hbX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,2,2,3,2,11,8,9,2,5,2,3,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: enclosed rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11110010 01 0001011 0101010 10001001 01110 1101100 011101 111 10 1110110 11101 1111010 111011 110001000100 0101001 11101 1110100 111100101000 1110011 111010 10010111000 010101000 10010110 11101111 001 011001001 110010101010 110101 101010 11101110 11010 1 110010 1101110010 01010 1100011101 11010010 1111001 0101 001100111000 1010 1010011 10101 1011100 00101101 1010010111 111101001100010 1 110101 1011110010 1011001 1110111
- Amount of stanzas: 12
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 122
- Average number of words per stanza: 21
- Amount of lines: 53
- Average number of symbols per line: 27 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 5
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; educated is repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word educated is repeated.
The literary device anadiplosis is detected in two or more neighboring lines. The word/phrase educated connects the lines.
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- summary of Efforts To Unite;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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