This is an analysis of the poem The Bigger Picture that begins with:
Nobody wants to clean up the trash.
Nobody wants to clear the debris....
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ABBC ABBC BDAe DFGDFX F BDAX F X e X ABBc dFGDFE DFGDFE DFE DFGXDFE
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,6,1,4,1,1,1,1,4,6,6,3,7,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 111101101 111101001 1111101001 1111 111101101 111101001 1111101001 1111 1110111 10010111 0111001 011110111 101010011011 0001 01010 101010011011 0001 01110 1101011001 1110111 10010111 0111001 011110111 1101011001 1010101001 101 11010010100 111101101 111101001 1111101001 10111 101010011011 0001 01010 101010011011 0001 01101 101010011011 0001 01010 101010011011 0001 01101 101010011011 0001 01101 101010011011 0001 01010 101010011011 0001 01101
- Amount of stanzas: 16
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 101
- Average number of words per stanza: 19
- Amount of lines: 52
- Average number of symbols per line: 30 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 6
Mood of the speaker:
The speaker asks many questions. Perhaps, he or she is in confusion.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; nobody, your, it, if are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word nobody is repeated.
The author used the same words nobody, does at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
The poet repeated the same words go, expect at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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- summary of The Bigger Picture;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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