This is an analysis of the poem Things Are The Way They Are that begins with:
Things are the way they are,
Because of decisions people have made....
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abbX bXacd XbX ccdbbXd X aeeaX X aX X Xd
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,5,3,7,1,5,1,2,1,2,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: enclosed rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 110111 0100101011 1 00010010010 0100111011010 1001011110 10110100111 10111100101 1001100111010 1111111101 111001101 100110101 11111 111111011 11111010 0010101000101 10111010010101 1111110110100 11110 1111011110 1111 01101011110 010011101111 1111111101 01011010010101001 110111000 1110110101 0110010110101 110 1110 111100
- Amount of stanzas: 10
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 120
- Average number of words per stanza: 22
- Amount of lines: 31
- Average number of symbols per line: 38 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 7
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; i is repeated.
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- summary of Things Are The Way They Are;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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