This is an analysis of the poem Looking More Like Rats that begins with:
They wish to touch their money...
But the looks of it has change....
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ABCDE dffcgf ffXggdgXgd XABCDEdded
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 5,6,10,10,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1101110 1010011 1101100 110010101 100100101 1010110101 101111010 11110101 01 1011010 10101011010 10110101 110100010001 110010 01101110 100110 010111 101011 0101010110 01110101 110101101 1 1101110 1010011 1101100 110010101 100100101 11111010 11100101 0010101 11010110
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 259
- Average number of words per stanza: 46
- Amount of lines: 31
- Average number of symbols per line: 33 (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; it is repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word and is repeated.
The author used the same word they at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
If you write a school or university poetry essay, you should Include in your explanation of the poem:
- summary of Looking More Like Rats;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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