This is an analysis of the poem Happy To Spread Dirt that begins with:
We are of the soil.
Many of us spoiled....
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XabXcb dcdbXc dbde beXX aXb
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,6,4,4,3,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11001 10011 10110100 10101 1110 010111 11001 01011 0010011 1101 101010000 11101011 11100101 1010 101 1101010 11100101 1111001 0110010010 0001111 110111 010110 011
- Amount of stanzas: 5
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 114
- Average number of words per stanza: 21
- Amount of lines: 23
- Average number of symbols per line: 24 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- 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; of is repeated.
The author used the same word we at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
If you write a school or university poetry essay, you should Include in your explanation of the poem:
- summary of Happy To Spread Dirt;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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