This is an analysis of the poem They Are Out There that begins with:
They are out there,
With a stinging to be done....
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ABABACD ABABACDE BFE BFE ABABACDE EBEDEGH EBEDEGH AEcdACIE AEACIE ade AddX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 7,8,3,3,8,7,7,8,6,3,4,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: rondeau rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1111 0010001 11111 10010101 1111 0010001 1010001 1111 0010001 11111 10010101 1111 0010001 1010001 110101 1010101010 011101 0101001 1010101010 011101 0101001 1111 0010001 11111 10010101 1111 0010001 1010001 110101 01001100 0100010 01110100 100010 00101 110111 1010 01001100 0100010 01110100 100010 00101 110111 1010 1111 10101 101001 01001 1111 0010001 1010011 01101 1111 10101 1111 0010001 1010011 01101 1111 01010001 101101 1111 01010001 1 100
- Amount of stanzas: 11
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 150
- Average number of words per stanza: 25
- Amount of lines: 64
- 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; to is repeated.
The author used the same words they, politicking, petitioning at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
The poet repeated the same words place, them, streets at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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- summary of They Are Out There;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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