This is an analysis of the poem Social Illiterates that begins with:
Why are the people angry?
'Comments made to them, ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: X aX Xbb bbcX ca XdeeX X dXXae
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 1,2,3,4,2,5,1,5,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1101010 10100 00101100 1 011 101 10011 1101100101 1111001011 110100010010 1 10010 11011 11001 111010 1010001010 1110100100100 1100101 11100101100 110000101 10 11010010 1111111101
- Amount of stanzas: 8
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 80
- Average number of words per stanza: 15
- Amount of lines: 23
- 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; them is repeated.
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- summary of Social Illiterates;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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