This is an analysis of the poem In Good Times. In Bad Times that begins with:
If not for those incredible sounds of Motown.
Jimi Hendrix....
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abcdddacXXXecfgf XbXddgggdeXdhcXh
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 16,16,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: shakespearean sonnet
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 011101001011 1010 11001110 01 010 10110 11110101010 101110100111 1100010111100 10011010101 10011011001010 110101 11101001101 1011 101001 1011001 11011111 01001010 011111 001 011 010101 101011111 000101101101 0 111101011 1001 0101 1111010 11111010 0001110 11010
- Amount of stanzas: 2
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 463
- Average number of words per stanza: 83
- Amount of lines: 32
- 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:
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; and, we are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words the, in are repeated.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines times is repeated).
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- summary of In Good Times. In Bad Times;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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