This is an analysis of the poem We Are Indebted To Them Up To Our Eyelids that begins with:
...Keep it cleansed, fresh and moisterized! ...
And now back to further news announcements: ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: X abbccdba bebedfd agag hcXbbbbbbbbiX ghhXhXXXaf aii XabaX iJXJfXXX kXkX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 1,8,7,4,13,10,3,5,8,4,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: limerick
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 101111000 1110101010 0100010010 01001 0100100100 111100100 110001000010 10110101 110 1110110 11100 11101110001 1100 1 001010111 101010 110011011 01011010 110111 11010111 10 111 11011 110110101 011101101 111 011111 10111101 1001 110100010111 1111 10101010 011001 1 101100010 010 01001 110110100 010110 10101010 01101 11110101 01110101101 011010010101 110010110 110 100010111 1110101001 111101100 11 0110 1011 101101000 1110100110 101101000 100110011111 0101 10111 11110101 111 1100110101 111110011 01001101000
- Amount of stanzas: 10
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 182
- Average number of words per stanza: 31
- Amount of lines: 63
- Average number of symbols per line: 28 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 5
Mood of the speaker:
There are many exclamation marks in the poem. The speaker is excited. He or she has strong feelings on the subject that is described in the poem.
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 poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words the, are are repeated.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines ' is repeated).
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- summary of We Are Indebted To Them Up To Our Eyelids;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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