This is an analysis of the poem When It Goes Up For Sale that begins with:
What are you out here looking for?
'I'm searching for peace.'...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: a X bXX X XbX cX dde cebaX Xbd
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 1,1,3,1,3,2,3,5,3,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11111101 110110 11110 0111 10111 11010101010 01 111110 101111 11010101 0111101111 11 1010111 110101010111 11101 0110010101 110101 1 100011 111 1110001 1100111001
- Amount of stanzas: 9
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 67
- Average number of words per stanza: 14
- Amount of lines: 22
- Average number of symbols per line: 27 (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.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; it, to are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word or is repeated.
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- summary of When It Goes Up For Sale;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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