This is an analysis of the poem Never Accepted What Their Eyes Have Shown that begins with:
Something in their heads,
Have them programmed to believe......
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abab aXcXa aadec efeXcadcfXf
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,5,5,11,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 10011 1011001 1110101 101111101 1010011 110100000100 101101 1100100 10100110100 10011 111111001 10111011 00100011 1010101 1011 101001 1011101 110 10001 110111001 101101111 11110010 11111 110100111 1001
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 197
- Average number of words per stanza: 32
- Amount of lines: 25
- Average number of symbols per line: 31 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 5
Mood of the speaker:
There are many exclamation marks in the poem. The speaker is excited. He or she has strong feelings on the subject that is described in the poem.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; they 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.
If you write a school or university poetry essay, you should Include in your explanation of the poem:
- summary of Never Accepted What Their Eyes Have Shown;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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