This is an analysis of the poem What's Wrong And What's Right that begins with:
Baby oh baby.
You make me understand the meaning of life....
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ABACD Aedfc AgfXbg ABACD dXdcHd ccHfdiD iD iDXed
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 5,5,6,5,6,7,2,5,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 10110 11110101001 10101110 111101111 0111 10110 1111110001 111101110 110101 001 10110 10110111 111111110 0101 111 111101 10110 11110101001 10101110 111101111 0111 11001001 0101 1011 11010101 1101 11111 1101 0101 1101 101 111111101 01 0101 01 0101 11010 0101 1111101 0101
- Amount of stanzas: 9
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 108
- Average number of words per stanza: 20
- Amount of lines: 40
- Average number of symbols per line: 24 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 5
Mood of the speaker:
There are many exclamation marks in the poem. The speaker is excited. He or she has strong feelings on the subject that is described in the poem.
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; you, make are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word you is repeated.
The author used the same word baby at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
The poet repeated the same word fight at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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- summary of What's Wrong And What's Right;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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