This is an analysis of the poem Heard Shouting Their Doubts Out that begins with:

Efforts made to get something done,
By anyone making a transition......

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: aabcde DFGXBA CcdceffbbX DFGXBA XaCcaa
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,6,10,6,6,
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: rondeau rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 10101101 1100100010 001010111 101001001010 0100110101 010010100 11110111 01011010101 101010100110 010010011001100 1010100100110 1111011010100101 10101110110100010 1100100101 1001101010010011101 00011011010 00111010010100 11000111 0101001110 01010101010 0101100 100100110001 11110111 01011010101 101010100110 010010011001100 1010100100110 1111011010100101 10101001 100100100100101 10101110110100010 1 10111010101010 101000100100101
  • Amount of stanzas: 5
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 317
  • Average number of words per stanza: 51
  • Amount of lines: 34
  • Average number of symbols per line: 46 (strings are more long than medium ones)
  • Average number of words per line: 8
  • 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; to is repeated.

    The poet repeated the same word entertain at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.

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  • summary of Heard Shouting Their Doubts Out;
  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
  • critical appreciation.

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