This is an analysis of the poem From Their Perch On Fences that begins with:
It can become such a foolish waste...
To chase someone who gets things done....
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abXXcX bdabeX ccXdfXa fcdf dXXXcedc ceXcc
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,6,7,4,8,5,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 010110101 01111111 001101 1001011 01010001 1101001001000 11010 10110010 11010111001 110100100 1100110 0110100111 10111011 001101011 1110100010 10111010 11010001 1101 01 1100011001010 001011 110101110 1011000101001 1001101 1111001000 0101000101101000 11001001001000 111100100010 10110 00111 100011010 111000101 1110 100 0111 1011110
- Amount of stanzas: 6
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 201
- Average number of words per stanza: 33
- Amount of lines: 36
- Average number of symbols per line: 33 (medium-length strings)
- 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; they, of are repeated.
The author used the same word like at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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- summary of From Their Perch On Fences;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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