This is an analysis of the poem What Is This All About that begins with:
Scathing?
That may be....
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: Xabc Xdaeef becg hXgbigijXf bdhhhXejjj
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,6,4,10,10,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 10 110 110001001 110100100 10 1 111010111 100001 01 001011101010 10 01000 00110100 100110101 01011 10010011000 1100111001 10100111 100111001 11110011 111101 01001011 00101 1011011001 11 1 11011110100 11100010 101010 100101 111100 101001 1111010
- Amount of stanzas: 6
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 142
- Average number of words per stanza: 24
- Amount of lines: 33
- Average number of symbols per line: 25 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 4
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; over is repeated.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines them is repeated).
If you write a school or university poetry essay, you should Include in your explanation of the poem:
- summary of What Is This All About;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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