This is an analysis of the poem If The Surface For Them Did Not Exist that begins with:
If the surface didn't exist,
Many wouldn't have a thought to cling to....
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: Abbba AcbbXda accedeadc XaXcc
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 5,7,9,5,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: limerick
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 00101001 1010101010 10101 110111 0010100101 00101001 0100101101111 10101101101 10101011101 1011101 0110001111 0010110101 10010100101 1110100101 1010010111 1010101 001001110 0 0101100101 01010010010111 10111111001 110101001011110 010100100010101 1001101001000 1001101010101001 110101
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 252
- Average number of words per stanza: 46
- Amount of lines: 26
- Average number of symbols per line: 38 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 7
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 used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words many, if are repeated.
The author used the same word if at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines exist is repeated).
The poet repeated the same word exist at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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- summary of If The Surface For Them Did Not Exist;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
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