This is an analysis of the poem We Need Help that begins with:
What do you suppose that means?
'What? ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: a XX bcXa XadefXacbXgXhfX fabha cX XagdXeaXii
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 1,2,4,15,5,2,10,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: enclosed rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1110111 1 11111 1001 111110 111 01110 10 11 01010111 110101001010 11100110 1000101 110 111001 1010010001 0101101111 1 1011100 01000101 10010 1101100 010 11111110 11100101 1010101 111111010 111011001 1011011 1 1 1010 11110011 10010001 1010001 1101000101 10 11101101001 01011
- Amount of stanzas: 7
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 142
- Average number of words per stanza: 25
- Amount of lines: 39
- Average number of symbols per line: 25 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 5
Mood of the speaker:
The speaker asks many questions. Perhaps, he or she is in confusion.
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- summary of We Need Help;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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