This is an analysis of the poem What Will You Then Do that begins with:
Long after these times lived are gone,
And you have discovered your points of view...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XaXabXb bXXbXXXXaba
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 7,11,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11011111 1110101101 011101 1011101 01101 011111 110001 11011010 11111101 11100 10101101 101110110 10110 11001 101011 10111 1001 101111
- Amount of stanzas: 2
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 272
- Average number of words per stanza: 51
- Amount of lines: 18
- Average number of symbols per line: 29 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 6
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.
If you write a school or university poetry essay, you should Include in your explanation of the poem:
- summary of What Will You Then Do;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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