This is an analysis of the poem 'We The People' that begins with:
We teach ignorance.
With a feeding it to feast upon....
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abXcdeaaf XXdXdgeg dcaaeXbfXage
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 9,8,12,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: shakespearean sonnet
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 11100 001000101 1101100010 11010001001 0010111000101 01111101 10011110101101 010111011101 111100011 110111 10101010 1101000110011 11111100 01010111001 1101110010010 001010001 01010110101 11 1010 1010101010 00111111 1101101010 010100010010 10111101 110101 0010101111000 110110010 010100001 1101001010
- Amount of stanzas: 3
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 349
- Average number of words per stanza: 60
- Amount of lines: 29
- Average number of symbols per line: 35 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 6
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; to is repeated.
The author used the same word we at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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- summary of 'We The People';
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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