This is an analysis of the poem From Where Did They Get This? that begins with:
Too many young,
Have been stung on the run....
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: AbXb AbXb X C X C dXX ED C ED C X C XXC
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,1,1,1,1,3,2,1,2,1,1,1,3,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1101 101101 1111011 111 1101 110101 0111010 1011 1101101 011101001 11101 011101001 11011101011 011010 10110010 11000 11001 11101001 11000 11001 11101001 11 010101101 11 010101101
- Amount of stanzas: 15
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 46
- Average number of words per stanza: 8
- Amount of lines: 25
- 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 speaker asks many questions. Perhaps, he or she is in confusion.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; kids is repeated.
The author used the same word too at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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- summary of From Where Did They Get This?;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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