This is an analysis of the poem These Are Our Neighbors that begins with:
Offered are no alternatives.
But complaints are voiced and heard....
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ABCDAAEC AAAC AAAC XX AAAC AAAC XaA bAAAC XAAAC ABCDAAEC XXA AAAC AAACXAAAC
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,4,4,2,4,4,3,5,5,8,3,4,9,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: rondeau rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 10110100 1011111 010111 111010 111 0100101 10101 00111 11110 11110 11110 1001 11110 11110 11110 1001 100000000001 10000000000000 111110 11110 11110 1001 111110 11110 111110 1001 100000000000100 100000000001 0101101101 1 11110 11110 11110 1001 1 11110 11110 11110 1001 10110100 1011111 010111 111010 111 0100101 10101 00111 100000000000001 1000000000001 0101101101 111110 11110 11110 1001 111110 11110 111110 1001 11110 11110 11110 1001
- Amount of stanzas: 14
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 114
- Average number of words per stanza: 16
- Amount of lines: 62
- Average number of symbols per line: 25 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 4
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; these, neighbors are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word these is repeated.
The author used the same word these at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines neighbors is repeated).
The poet repeated the same word one at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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- summary of These Are Our Neighbors;
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- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
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