This is an analysis of the poem Sometimes With Nothing Profound that begins with:
Spectacular and unconventional.
With a little bit of poverty....
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XXabb cXdeXeX ddaXdd cXXcc
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 5,7,6,5,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 0100110100 001010100 1010010 11101 011110101 01101 100011010 10100011010 111110 0101001 10000110 1001000101 11000 1011011 110010000111 10010111010 11100001 001010111 10101 110101 10101001 11010101
- Amount of stanzas: 5
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 140
- Average number of words per stanza: 25
- Amount of lines: 22
- Average number of symbols per line: 31 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 6
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; been, and are repeated.
The author used the same word and at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
If you write a school or university poetry essay, you should Include in your explanation of the poem:
- summary of Sometimes With Nothing Profound;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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