This is an analysis of the poem There Is Something About 'Him' that begins with:
We are at a loss to explain how this could happen.
He had been an average child....
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abccc ded dXdfXg dehgXf ihdb bdjk de hX Xiak bXaij
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 5,3,6,6,4,4,2,2,4,5,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1110100110110 11011001 11011 1011001001 1101111 101011101 11101 1101011 11010011001 11010100 1101101 01001111 1001 110011011 111010101 11010111 11 1101 110111011 110101101 101011 111010 1110111 11101110 1010001 11010101 10010101010001 1010100110101001 11010 111101 111100101 101100101 1111100 1101011 0100111 110001011 1 1010011 11001011 11 101
- Amount of stanzas: 10
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 124
- Average number of words per stanza: 23
- Amount of lines: 41
- 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 punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; he is repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word he is repeated.
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- summary of There Is Something About 'Him';
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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