This is an analysis of the poem Rubbing Off What's Been Dusted that begins with:
Rubbing off what's been dusted.
To pick up again to shine and buff....
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: Abbcaadeafc dceccddaXcf AXXc AXXceccaafX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 11,11,4,11,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1011010 011010111 001010101 1110011 001001011 10101 01001010 1010100 01111 10010 01101010 1110010 0101001 11000101 101101 10101 110010 0111010 1 11001 10100010 011010100 1011010 1010100 0101001 1001101 1011010 00110110 1010100 0101001 101010 00011 101010 0100010010 11011010 101001 00101010
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 262
- Average number of words per stanza: 45
- Amount of lines: 37
- 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:
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.
The author used the same word rubbing at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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- summary of Rubbing Off What's Been Dusted;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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