This is an analysis of the poem The Sky Is Falling. The Sky Is Falling that begins with:
Some activity with an addicting done,
Had to purposely afflict them to accept......
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: AbACBca dX e eX fbc XbX ebe XfaFFDDbXXAbACBbb
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 7,2,1,2,3,3,3,17,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: enclosed rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 10100010101 10100010001 01001001111 01011010100 01001011 01011110 10111 11010 010101 11 101 11101 111110 1 11111010 1101 111 101 001010101 111101100 1010100111 1 11011000101 101101 111 111 01010 01010 11101100 110010 10100010101 1010010001 01001001111 01011010100 01001011 01011101 00101010101
- Amount of stanzas: 9
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 117
- Average number of words per stanza: 21
- Amount of lines: 37
- Average number of symbols per line: 28 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 5
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; to, what are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words to, hear, the are repeated.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines now, falling are repeated).
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- summary of The Sky Is Falling. The Sky Is Falling;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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