This is an analysis of the poem Nature's Commodities that begins with:
Are you not?
Am I not? ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: AAABCADEFghhaiehhiAAABCADEFghgX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 31,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 111 111 111101 10010111 00110 010101 111111 10001 111000100 0101010 1111101 11100100 10101001000101 11010001 00111111001 101 11001 0010101001 111 111 111101 10010111 00110 010101 111111 10001 111000100 111110110 1010101011 0101010110 11100101
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 902
- Average number of words per stanza: 163
- Amount of lines: 31
- Average number of symbols per line: 28 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 5
Mood of the speaker:
The speaker asks many questions. Perhaps, he or she is in confusion.
There are many three dots in the poem. Readers should think of the author's idea together with the pensive speaker.
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- summary of Nature's Commodities;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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