This is an analysis of the poem Instead Of Being Derelict that begins with:
We have come to offer.
Not equip to dissect....
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abXb ccXcbbddb abbdb Xbbb
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,9,5,4,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 111010 101001 0100001001 1001110001 0010101 001000101 11101 0100010 1101 111101101 110101 1010111 111100111011 111101010 10100 01 011110 010101 10010011 00010010001 0101101 01010101
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 152
- Average number of words per stanza: 27
- Amount of lines: 22
- Average number of symbols per line: 27 (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; to is repeated.
The author used the same word and at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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- summary of Instead Of Being Derelict;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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