This is an analysis of the poem Our Brilliant Public School Students that begins with:
Listen up, clowns!
...er, a... students....
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ab cdbaefX ed X bf ggXXd fadXa XX d X X fX fh ifachfiX db aXc fb abaajj bXa XX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 2,7,2,1,2,5,5,2,1,1,1,2,2,8,2,3,2,6,3,2,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: enclosed rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1011 0010 11 01101010 1100110 1101001100100 0 1011 1011010 1101011010 101010 1 101100 1101 11110 101010100010 001011011101 110 101010010101101010 1 101101 10001010 1101011100 11 1 11 111010 111001101 11100 1110 11101011101 1101011010 110101 1111 10011 101111111 111101001 111 1111011 101111 11101010 1010 110 10111 111111 11010010 11 1110100 11110101011 011010110 110110101 101011 010110100 0001001010 101110 11101101001 01001001110110 1 1111110101
- Amount of stanzas: 20
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 81
- Average number of words per stanza: 14
- Amount of lines: 59
- Average number of symbols per line: 27 (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.
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; i is repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word you is repeated.
The literary device anadiplosis is detected in two or more neighboring lines. The word/phrase you connects the lines.
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- summary of Our Brilliant Public School Students;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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