This is an analysis of the poem Nowhere On This Planet that begins with:
When they discover that their wars,
Bring nothing but dead ends to them......
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ABXXXc ABcXX aaba dddcXXXc
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,5,4,8,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11010111 11011100 11101010 011111010 10100101000 01010101 11010111 11011100 101001 0110100 00011010100 111000101 100100001110 101111 110101110100 1111010 010110101101 101011001 010100 11 1 0110 1100101010
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 190
- Average number of words per stanza: 32
- Amount of lines: 23
- Average number of symbols per line: 32 (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 poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word and is repeated.
The author used the same word when 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 Nowhere On This Planet;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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