This is an analysis of the poem They Look Like Us that begins with:
What is going on over there?
'We have everything under control....
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: a bcdadX e XeffX e X gee cX gXg XhcXedcXeXXX db hcX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 1,6,1,5,1,1,3,2,3,12,2,3,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 10101101 111011001 11111010 11001010100 111 101011010 1101001000 10100 1 00110010 111001000100010 011001001010 0111100 110101 1 11010101010 010100 10101001 11 101111 1101011010010101 1101001000100 111101111010 1 1110 1001001 11 0110111 110010101001 100101111001 111111101 111010111 110101 1101010101100100 011010 1 111001001111 1110 1111 11110011
- Amount of stanzas: 12
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 104
- Average number of words per stanza: 18
- Amount of lines: 40
- Average number of symbols per line: 31 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 5
Mood of the speaker:
The speaker asks many questions. Perhaps, he or she is in confusion.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; of, they are repeated.
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- summary of They Look Like Us;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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