This is an analysis of the poem Obviously You Know Nothing About Greatness that begins with:
Why not destroy the lives of everyone,
To allow a few greedy and spoiled people......
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XaXXb XaX bc XcX XXd XdX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 5,3,2,3,3,3,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1101010101 00101101110 10010110 111 001110101 1 100101010 001001101 01 100110111 1 0101110 1101001011 1 1010101000001 11011101010100 1 100011100110 1100010100
- Amount of stanzas: 6
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 91
- Average number of words per stanza: 16
- Amount of lines: 19
- 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.
If you write a school or university poetry essay, you should Include in your explanation of the poem:
- summary of Obviously You Know Nothing About Greatness;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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