This is an analysis of the poem Thinking It To Be Cemented that begins with:
Dried dirt and water mixed,
Can and will produce thick mud....
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abaaa baXXX XbbX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 5,5,4,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: limerick
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: sonnet with iambic trimeter or irregular meter
- Metre: 111101 1100111 0101001 1100100110 101001001010 1110010011 101001 010011011 11110100 0010101 11 111010011 10000010 10100101
- Amount of stanzas: 3
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 150
- Average number of words per stanza: 26
- Amount of lines: 14
- Average number of symbols per line: 31 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 6
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; and is repeated.
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- summary of Thinking It To Be Cemented;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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