This is an analysis of the poem 'Something' That Identifies A Progress Made that begins with:

No decade will 'ever',
Come close to what the 70's......

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: XXaaXbcd ddXebaeca abbcfbff XddXaXaebXccddbaac
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,9,8,18,
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: couplets
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 101010 110101 010100 000100001 10100100010 1111010 101001011 1000100 0101010011101 11111101 0011001011 11001110100 10101 110100101 10110000110100 1111010001 0101011100001 1010010101011001 101011010 1110011101 0101111001 111110111001 1111010 00101111000101011 11111110011 1001100110100111 1001110111 111001001011101010 010100101010111 01101101101 111110101101 00100101010 1111100110100 0011001001 1001010101111010 1010001010100 1011100111010 01010001000100101 11010110111 100001110100 11110001001001010 0101001101
  • Amount of stanzas: 5
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 372
  • Average number of words per stanza: 64
  • Amount of lines: 42
  • Average number of symbols per line: 43 (strings are more long than medium ones)
  • Average number of words per line: 8
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; to, those, of, minds are repeated.

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  • summary of 'Something' That Identifies A Progress Made;
  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
  • critical appreciation.

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