This is an analysis of the poem That's How The Story Told, Goes that begins with:
Why can't we continue to pretend,
None of us have been troubled......
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: AabXcc debeXXfe XfcdaXfbAaeea
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,8,13,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: enclosed rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 111010001 1011010 10010001001 111100010 10101 0110101011 1010110110 10101101010 0101100011101 1011101 0101100 00101111 01001001 1101011 10010 110101101 10110101 01010100010 011001001 10001 0110111010010 111010001 1100011 1101110 10010010 10101
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 225
- Average number of words per stanza: 40
- Amount of lines: 26
- Average number of symbols per line: 34 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 6
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; to is repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word with is repeated.
If you write a school or university poetry essay, you should Include in your explanation of the poem:
- summary of That's How The Story Told, Goes;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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