This is an analysis of the poem Left Vacant To Dust Like Useless Property that begins with:
Minds burned out.
Thoughts displaced....
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aaXbcccb aca dedXXfa cf dXe
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,3,7,2,3,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 111 101 11101 010 0101 10111 10100111 1101101011 1010101 1001010101001 01010101001 10010001010 11100001 11000010101010100 01111110010 1000100 11011001 01101011101 1001 101010 111001110100 100101010010 1100111
- Amount of stanzas: 5
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 152
- Average number of words per stanza: 24
- Amount of lines: 23
- Average number of symbols per line: 32 (medium-length strings)
- 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; their is repeated.
The author used the same word something at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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- summary of Left Vacant To Dust Like Useless Property;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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