This is an analysis of the poem When Then They Had It that begins with:
It isn't what it was or had been to them.
They wanted it to radiate even when ignored....
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abcccXd bddXbXe cfgXf bdhhddddb acbeeXfddgddfbe
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 7,7,5,9,15,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 00010111000 1100010010101 101110001010001 100010110010 1101001011001 0100101111000 01 101100100101 0101011101 001000 10110100 101010111 1010001010100 0101011001 000101110001 110100101 000111001 100101111000 0110010101111 111010 11010101 101010000101 1111001 111010001101 101001 011000101 1111011111 110 001011011000 1101101 1100100101011 11010000101100 00100010101011 1010010011101 0010100110111 000100010111110 10100100100101101 11110 1 10101 001 11
- Amount of stanzas: 6
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 266
- Average number of words per stanza: 52
- Amount of lines: 42
- Average number of symbols per line: 37 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 7
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; it, to, what are repeated.
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- summary of When Then They Had It;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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