This is an analysis of the poem Looking Down From Upturned Noses that begins with:
Why do those accustomed,
To looking down from upturned noses at others......
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abbacdcXed fX fXdd XbX X dbeaecX Xc fX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 10,2,4,3,1,7,2,2,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 111010 0101010010110 1001101101010 00101110 100101 110111001001100 11011010101 01011110100 010011100010 111010010100100 1110101100010 01011010101 011 1111100 0111100 0001111100 1101010 11100100011100 111110111 111111111 1111110100 11 1011110001 11001 110010 10010110101 1 1 101110111 11011 101110101000
- Amount of stanzas: 8
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 136
- Average number of words per stanza: 25
- Amount of lines: 31
- Average number of symbols per line: 34 (medium-length strings)
- 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; their, to, i are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word oh is repeated.
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- summary of Looking Down From Upturned Noses;
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