This is an analysis of the poem Under The Influence Of Circumstances that begins with:
We raise what is planted.
We reap what is sown....
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abcdbeXdda XfdfXXccde
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 10,10,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 111010 11101 11001101 111010 1111 1110110 101111 01110 1100110 0010011001 1100101 1111010110110 101010011111 00101000 00100011111 10010001000 110101 11010001001 010111010 110111000110100
- Amount of stanzas: 2
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 341
- Average number of words per stanza: 61
- Amount of lines: 20
- 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; we, what, to, of are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word we is repeated.
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- summary of Under The Influence Of Circumstances;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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