This is an analysis of the poem Just An After-Thought that begins with:
Who are those people across the street?
They appear to be waving....
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abc XdaedX a X Xfg XdaX e cXdX fgf XXba
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 3,6,1,1,3,4,1,4,3,4,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 111100101 1010010 111 100010 11101011 011101 1111 101 011101011 11111 1110101 0111100 101011 11010101 1 10 1011111 01100110 1111 1101 110101010 11111001 11111111 11 101110 0101001 1111 10 11101
- Amount of stanzas: 11
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 65
- Average number of words per stanza: 12
- Amount of lines: 29
- Average number of symbols per line: 24 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 5
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; they, not are repeated.
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- summary of Just An After-Thought;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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