This is an analysis of the poem There As A Mausoleum that begins with:
It isn't there sitting,
To provide incentive......
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: AbC deXXe AbCeXf fdXf
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 3,5,6,4,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: enclosed rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 000110 001010 1011000010 001101010 1010101010 0111 10010 0111001010 000110 001101010 1011000010 001 0101001 111 1011010100 1100101010101 111001010 0010110101
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 139
- Average number of words per stanza: 24
- Amount of lines: 18
- Average number of symbols per line: 30 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 5
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; it is repeated.
The author used the same word it at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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- summary of There As A Mausoleum;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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