This is an analysis of the poem We'Ve Been Trying 'Everything' To Get Noticed that begins with:

There are more unidentified flying objects in the sky,
People can not deny they exist anymore....

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: abcdef egX ah cafbX fe adfdfX e hX a XiXheX jj gbdcX j iX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,3,2,5,2,6,1,2,1,6,2,5,1,2,
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 111101011010001 101101101101 10010110010 0111101000100 1001101 01011011111 11110110101011 110001001 10010101001000110 1 101010000110 11010 11 1011010110 1101011 00111001000 1110010 11111 10010101110101 1100111 10101101 10101000110 110010101 1010101 111 10 11011010101 1 101010010 01101010 111010 0101011 0101 10111010111000 10100 110100 1101 11100011001 110 01100011 001100 111101110 11000 11111
  • Amount of stanzas: 14
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 100
  • Average number of words per stanza: 18
  • Amount of lines: 44
  • Average number of symbols per line: 31 (strings are less long than medium ones)
  • Average number of words per line: 6
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The speaker asks many questions. Perhaps, he or she is in confusion.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; to, america, south are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word you is repeated.

    There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines america is repeated).

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  • summary of We'Ve Been Trying 'Everything' To Get Noticed;
  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
  • critical appreciation.

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