This is an analysis of the poem It Appears To Be That Way that begins with:
Wait a minute.
Aren't they the same incompetent people, ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aXbb X cd X Xb X XX X Xdaeab X ecX XbeX X
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,1,2,1,2,1,2,1,6,1,3,4,1,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1001 10101010010 0100100 111010100 1010011 0001101 111010 1010011 0001 100111010 1010011 00011111 100101010 1010011 110010110101 111100111 0111111 111111 1110011 0110101111 1010011 101 111110 0011101101 11110 11010101 10110101 00100110101 0010011
- Amount of stanzas: 13
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 70
- Average number of words per stanza: 13
- Amount of lines: 29
- Average number of symbols per line: 31 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 6
Mood of the speaker:
The speaker asks many questions. Perhaps, he or she is in confusion.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; you, your are repeated.
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- summary of It Appears To Be That Way;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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