This is an analysis of the poem More Public And Meaningful Action that begins with:

If years have been spent investing in garbage.
And the nurturing of it has been conscious....

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: XabcX bXXd eXeeddXb XadcXaXXcdaecbd
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 5,4,8,15,
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: enclosed rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 00101010010 10100001010 111010100 1010100 11000111 101011 0010101101001 001010010 01010 1111101 0101001010 110001 011101 0100010111 10001011011 110110110 010100010 101 1010101111 111010010010 1111010111 11101010 111000010110 1110011101011 101000101101001 101000101001110 01001100 10101 01000101 010110110010 111011001
  • Amount of stanzas: 5
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 235
  • Average number of words per stanza: 39
  • Amount of lines: 31
  • Average number of symbols per line: 37 (medium-length strings)
  • Average number of words per line: 6
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; to, their, me are repeated.

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  • summary of More Public And Meaningful Action;
  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
  • critical appreciation.

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