This is an analysis of the poem Some Prefer What's On The Surface that begins with:
It's in the meaning that comes,
That may not suit everyone......
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ABC ABbb DcDeDee ABC ABXe eXeXaX fdfX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 3,4,7,3,4,6,4,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 0001011 1111101 001000111 0001011 1111101 0010001 0111 10111010 1101001 10111010 0110100 10111010 1010001 01010101011 0001011 1111101 001000111 0001011 1111101 011 01011 110001001 0 010101000 1 010001 01000 11100010 01001 1100010 01000
- Amount of stanzas: 7
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 121
- Average number of words per stanza: 22
- Amount of lines: 31
- 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; that, to are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word to is repeated.
The author used the same word it's at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
The poet repeated the same word meaninglessness at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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- summary of Some Prefer What's On The Surface;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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