This is an analysis of the poem Getting A New And Clearer View that begins with:
What are you doing?
'Getting a new and clearer view.'...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: a X bc XaXbX XX XX dab XcX dX XX Xda
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 1,1,2,5,2,2,3,3,2,2,3,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11110 10011101 10110010100 11010 1111100101 1111110 01010011101 11101001110 11101011111100 11 11010111 1 11000010100 1 111010110 1011101 1 1101110101010 1001 1111110001 110010 1 1001111101 1101001 1 1111010
- Amount of stanzas: 11
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 67
- Average number of words per stanza: 12
- Amount of lines: 26
- Average number of symbols per line: 28 (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.
There are many three dots in the poem. Readers should think of the author's idea together with the pensive speaker.
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- summary of Getting A New And Clearer View;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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