This is an analysis of the poem This Being Human Business that begins with:
From squalor and trash,
A rising is witnessed....
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XaabX cXbda cbeae Xfb XX deXde afX X
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 5,5,5,3,2,5,3,1,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 01011 010010 01001 10101 101011110 0101010010 10010010101011 10101001101 00100001011010 10011111001 100100100010 1001001001000010 1111 10100001001 11011 1 01010100010 0100110101001001 110 0101101 11110010 1111101001 11101 11010 1101011 111 01010100010 11 110
- Amount of stanzas: 8
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 117
- Average number of words per stanza: 19
- Amount of lines: 29
- Average number of symbols per line: 32 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 5
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, with are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word sitting is repeated.
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- summary of This Being Human Business;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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