This is an analysis of the poem Those Who Go To College that begins with:
Those who go to college,
Should decide with a clear knowledge......
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: AABC AABD BCBCEF X AABC AABD BCBCEF X cGF X cGF aX X cafXAABDc
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,6,1,4,4,6,1,3,1,3,2,1,9,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 111010 10100110 100 110001 1111010 10100110 100 1110100 110101 11110011 11010101011 101 01000101010101 101 11 111010 10100110 100 110001 1111010 10100110 100 1110100 110101 11110011 11010101011 101 01000101010101 101 110101 1 1110101010 1010101 110101 1 1110101010 1010101 1101010 1010101001 111 1 101010 0110101001 1111010 10100110 100 1110100 11110100
- Amount of stanzas: 15
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 85
- Average number of words per stanza: 16
- Amount of lines: 48
- Average number of symbols per line: 26 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- 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 is repeated.
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- summary of Those Who Go To College;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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