This is an analysis of the poem Garbage On The Sidelines that begins with:
They stood by on the sidelines
Pointing at spectacle after spectacle....
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aXXaXabaXXb
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 11,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1111011 10110010100 10101011010 1010 1101101 10101101 1001001 101011 10011000 01001010 11111110
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 345
- Average number of words per stanza: 52
- Amount of lines: 11
- Average number of symbols per line: 30 (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.
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- summary of Garbage On The Sidelines;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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