This is an analysis of the poem What On Earth Were We Thinking that begins with:
It is wonderful and great,
To know people are beginning......
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: AXbcXb AbXcba AXaXccX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,6,7,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 0010011 01101010 01001001001 0010010111100 101100010010 0111011001 0010011 10101011001000010 10100001011 010110100100 0101001000 111101010001 0010011 1010100101 010100110101 1011111011 1111011101011 1110110111100 011111011
- Amount of stanzas: 3
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 268
- Average number of words per stanza: 48
- Amount of lines: 19
- Average number of symbols per line: 41 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 8
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; to, and are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word to is repeated.
The author used the same word it at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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- summary of What On Earth Were We Thinking;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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