This is an analysis of the poem The We Poem And Other Compositions that begins with:

We can not be us together.
Whenever the storm begins to break......

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: ABCDDD ceffXbghfiifeX f ABCDDD afdddefegXXje Xfcicckjd XgbXhXklX aehgmXb iemdXABmfdceXlhh mXfeXeecc
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,14,1,6,13,9,9,7,16,9,
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: enclosed rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 11101010 010010101 111001 111011111 10101 1010011 0010011 01000101 01 1111 11111 11111101 010101100 111 11001 101011110 111111001 0101110 01110 11111 001111 11101010 010010101 111001 111011111 10101 1010011 11101010 0111110001010 01010100100 1010 110111011101 0101110 11111111 10 0110101001111 10101110101 10111110110110 01111011111 01 111100100101 100101 11010110 101 11101010101 110001 10 110100 1111110101 111110111 10101010 1000100100101 1111010 11 1111011111 10 11110 01001 11110100010 101110100110100 01 1111100 11011 1111010101 10101111110 11110101011 1001111101 011 11101110111 010111011101 11101010 010010101 011111010101 11111001011 100011 010101101011 1111111110 11110000110110101 11101 1110 101 111101011 11111 10100 11101101100101 11111 11110011 10101000111 11 101010101010
  • Amount of stanzas: 10
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 286
  • Average number of words per stanza: 55
  • Amount of lines: 90
  • 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:

    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; of, i, to are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words a, and are repeated.

    The author used the same word we at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.

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  • summary of The We Poem And Other Compositions;
  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
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