This is an analysis of the poem Leave Behind The Humdrum that begins with:
Get ready for the future that is to come.
Get ready......
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ABAACDCD ABAACDCD EFBAABAGEFgEFXABAACDCDGEF
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,8,25,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11010101001 110 0101011 11010101001 1101 1010011011 101 110101011 11010101001 110 0101011 11010101001 1101 1010011011 101 110101011 100110101111 01100010100 110 0101011 11010101001 110 0101011 11 100110101111 01100010100 01 100110101111 01100010100 11010101001 110 0101011 11010101001 1101 1010011011 101 110101011 11 100110101111 01100010100
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 305
- Average number of words per stanza: 57
- Amount of lines: 40
- Average number of symbols per line: 30 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 6
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; get, ready, to, rid, of, they are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word get is repeated.
The author used the same word get at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
The poet repeated the same words skull, it at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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- summary of Leave Behind The Humdrum;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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