This is an analysis of the poem Only A Few May Know How To Turn On The Lights that begins with:

How can someone be responsible,
For creating new concepts......

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: XabXX cXbbX X Xc Xaa XaX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 5,5,1,2,3,3,
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 111100100 1010110 101011 011110 101000 1101010001 11000010010100 00010 010101011010 10101010 1110101100101 1 111 10111010 1010111 01000011 10011010 1100111101101 1101
  • Amount of stanzas: 6
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 94
  • Average number of words per stanza: 16
  • Amount of lines: 19
  • Average number of symbols per line: 29 (strings are less long than medium ones)
  • Average number of words per line: 5
  • 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.

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  • summary of Only A Few May Know How To Turn On The Lights;
  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
  • critical appreciation.

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