This is an analysis of the poem To Divide Them that begins with:
Has the advancements made in technology,
Increased the intelligence of human beings? ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XabX bbX XaXa aXX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,3,4,3,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: sonnet with trochaic tetrameter or irregular meter
- Metre: 10010100100 010010001010 101010101010 01010001001101 100101010 0110011101 10010000010 1 1111010110 0010110 1101100001 1010010 010010 0100001
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 122
- Average number of words per stanza: 20
- Amount of lines: 14
- Average number of symbols per line: 34 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 6
Mood of the speaker:
The speaker asks many questions. Perhaps, he or she is in confusion.
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.
The author used the same word has at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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- summary of To Divide Them;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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