This is an analysis of the poem Quick Lived Whims that begins with:
And here we are...
Concerned that aliens from outer space, ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XaXbXba acaXc XdcXXXdbcX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 7,5,10,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1111 0111000101 01110011101 101010010 1010110101110 10110101 111110010 101100111010100 11101010011010 111 10111001011 1111001 11111100101111 11010 11100110 1010101 110011001000 011001111 0110010 01101011111 111010010 00101
- Amount of stanzas: 3
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 271
- Average number of words per stanza: 47
- Amount of lines: 22
- Average number of symbols per line: 36 (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; we is repeated.
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- summary of Quick Lived Whims;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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