This is an analysis of the poem Retro-Active Practices that begins with:
Anyone noticed to be seen moving forward,
With aggressive steps placed to make......
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aXbbb Xcbdbd aX ecef XgXX d XX X XX XhX bXXaghf
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 5,6,2,4,4,1,2,1,2,3,7,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 100100011010 00101101 0010100101 1011010010011 10101001101 1100101110 0010001 010010111 0010010111011 010001 1001100100101 111100111010 1010000100011 101 1101001101101 10110001010100 10101001001000100 1 01101 01111011 010001010100110000 110100010 1 111 110110100110111 1 11 1011 111010100101010100 0100101110000 110 111 1101 111111001 1111010010 001110100
- Amount of stanzas: 12
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 105
- Average number of words per stanza: 19
- Amount of lines: 36
- Average number of symbols per line: 34 (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.
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; to is repeated.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines ' is repeated).
The poet repeated the same word ' at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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- summary of Retro-Active Practices;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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