This is an analysis of the poem This Eclectic Mix that begins with:
We all are a part of this eclectic mix.
Seeking with our identities, ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: Abcbdace AdabXXaa ADFdddCC ADFdCC ADddccXADade
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,8,8,6,12,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: enclosed rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11101000101 10010100 00010100101 000101101010 1111001 00100010 101000101100 101001001 11101000101 010110110000 11011010 01010111000 1111111 01010010010 0001000100 10100111010 00101 1001001001100 10100111111 1110110101 10101001 1111101 11001 1001001 00101 1001001001100 10100111111 11101 11001 1001001 00101 1001001001100 110101 1101001 0101101 10010001 00101 1001001001100 1001001 0101111 100100011010
- Amount of stanzas: 6
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 232
- Average number of words per stanza: 42
- Amount of lines: 41
- Average number of symbols per line: 33 (medium-length strings)
- 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; to, be, and are repeated.
The author used the same words we, this at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
The poet repeated the same word hold at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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- summary of This Eclectic Mix;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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