This is an analysis of the poem Nobody Is There To Listen that begins with:
Choosing to sustain, maintain and keep their livelihoods,
They did what most conformed people do! ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aXa bcbddXae efXe XX gffcc ghiX ggba ehaXh cibXX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 3,8,4,2,5,4,4,5,5,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1000101111101 101101101 1100111 11111 01011110101 010010010 11101 1 0111011101 1100 0100110101010 101 10111110 010101000100 001000101110 11110010001 11 01 1111010 11001010 10100100010101 1101101101 01 11101101011 1010110001 0010100101100 01 111001 10111101 00101010 101001100111 1111010101101 11100111 11010111110011101 11110101111101010111 11000 1110111001 1 01101010 1111111101
- Amount of stanzas: 9
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 155
- Average number of words per stanza: 27
- Amount of lines: 40
- 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; they, of are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words they, perceiving are repeated.
The author used the same word today at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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- summary of Nobody Is There To Listen;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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