This is an analysis of the poem What's That About that begins with:
The unaccepting of that which today exists.
What's that about? ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ABB CBB bXabBB DEDbBbBB DEDfbBbBB ABB CBB DDCDDBbBbBDDffXBbBbBbB
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 3,3,6,8,9,3,3,22,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: rondeau rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 010000110101 1101 1101 0101110111100 1101 1101 10111010101 0010101 1010111 1 1101 1101 1011 10111101101 1011 1100 110101101101 1 1101 1101 1011 10111101101 1011 1 100 110101101101 1 1101 1101 010000110101 1101 1101 0101110111100 1101 1101 1011 1011 0101110111100 1011 1011 110101101101 1 1101 1 1101 1011 1011 1101010101010 001001100111010 1101 1 1101 1 1101 1 1101
- Amount of stanzas: 9
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 150
- Average number of words per stanza: 25
- Amount of lines: 56
- Average number of symbols per line: 23 (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; people, what's, about, sick are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words what's, people, and are repeated.
The author used the same word people at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines about, sick are repeated).
The poet repeated the same word about at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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- summary of What's That About;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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