This is an analysis of the poem We Laughed that begins with:
The only ones who come to taste,
True failure and its flavor......
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aXbccde Efgd Ecga Xcga gfX hhbi jjec igbg XXaf
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 7,4,4,4,3,4,4,4,4,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: enclosed rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 01011101 1101010 111101011 0011101001010 1010101 110100001 1101010100 101001011 010100101010 101111000 010011101 101001011 101011 10111100 11101001110 0111 0010101101 0101000101000 1101101001 111110100 010000110010 111101 111 101 1111010011 1010111 111111 10110 11110110100010 1001010011010 1 111010 11110001 0111101100 11 11 110110
- Amount of stanzas: 10
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 121
- Average number of words per stanza: 22
- Amount of lines: 37
- Average number of symbols per line: 32 (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 poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word we is repeated.
The author used the same word dues at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines uh is repeated).
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- summary of We Laughed;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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