This is an analysis of the poem Nothing We Say Or Do Goes Unheard that begins with:
Pray to ask for clarity to come.
Be thankful in your doing of this, ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ABCD dXeb fXegd ABCDfd Xg
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,5,6,2,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 101110001 010011000 11011111 1010001 0100011100 1101010101 00101110 11100101 1111001 01010110 110111100 010110010 101001010 101110001 010011000 11011111 1010001 1010010000010 01001010010 1 110001
- Amount of stanzas: 5
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 141
- Average number of words per stanza: 25
- Amount of lines: 21
- 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; to is repeated.
The author used the same word pray at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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- summary of Nothing We Say Or Do Goes Unheard;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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