This is an analysis of the poem Totally Worthless that begins with:
What can be said.
To people with thick heads....
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abccdXade abebeXdX XfG XXdhXX bfGhfXaabffdaca
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 9,8,3,6,15,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: rondeau rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1101 010011 1010101010 11010 10101 11111001 00111 11101001 11011101 10111001 101011111 11100111 0101101010100 1001010001 01110011100 101101000 100101011100 1 111111 1101010 11 1111 110 1 01001 101111 10101 11111 1101010 110101001101 0101100 11001 1111101 110101 01010 10111100 0010101010 010100001 11001 1010010 100010011
- Amount of stanzas: 5
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 230
- Average number of words per stanza: 40
- Amount of lines: 41
- Average number of symbols per line: 27 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 5
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; to is repeated.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines ' is repeated).
If you write a school or university poetry essay, you should Include in your explanation of the poem:
- summary of Totally Worthless;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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