This is an analysis of the poem What's Been Done Has Been Done that begins with:
For the first time they all sat,
Together......
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: AbCDEFX GCG AbCDEFX cahaX GCG EAIJH acXaa EAIJH AbCDEFX GCGXga
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 7,3,7,5,3,5,5,5,7,6,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rondeau rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1011111 010 01100100 1101010 110010 1110100 00100100 0010001000110 1100010100 0101001 1011111 010 01100100 1101010 110010 1110100 00100100 10101 1011011 1110011 1011011 11011010 0010001000110 1100010100 0101001 011010 1110111101 011000110101 01001111 111110101 11001 010011010 100100111 10010011111 11101001 011010 1110111101 011000110101 01001111 111110101 1011111 010 01100100 1101010 110010 1110100 00100100 0010001000110 1100010100 0101001 101101 1101110010
- Amount of stanzas: 11
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 146
- Average number of words per stanza: 26
- Amount of lines: 52
- Average number of symbols per line: 30 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 6
Mood of the speaker:
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; to, what, of, and are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word out is repeated.
The author used the same word the at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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- summary of What's Been Done Has Been Done;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
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