This is an analysis of the poem Paved Over! Cemented that begins with:
What steps have you taken,
To prove that you've made them? ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: AB cX db XXaXXe efeXf ccdXceXABe
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 2,2,2,6,5,10,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 111110 011110 10100101 111010100 00010010010 1010010101 011101 1011011 0001011010 1011110111010 0110 010 100101011 111101 0010111010 110001001 11001110100 1010100101 01100010 10110100 10010011010010 10101110101111 00111 111110 011110 01010
- Amount of stanzas: 7
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 126
- Average number of words per stanza: 21
- Amount of lines: 26
- Average number of symbols per line: 33 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 6
Mood of the speaker:
The speaker asks many questions. Perhaps, he or she is in confusion.
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 to is repeated.
The author used the same word and at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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- summary of Paved Over! Cemented;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
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