This is an analysis of the poem We Are Not Of This Earth that begins with:
We are not of this Earth.
Just to leech and feed our greed....
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ABCDEE Xcfg bbfbddXXABCDEEdgeddf
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,4,20,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: shakespearean sonnet
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 111001 1011111 11101 1010 10100100110 1001010 1101000 111010 1110101 1010001101 10111110 11010 0011 101101001 0101010 1001001010 001111010 111001 1011111 11101 1010 10100100110 1001010 11000010 1001001 0011101010 10101 110001 10011
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 200
- Average number of words per stanza: 35
- Amount of lines: 29
- 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:
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, and are repeated.
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