This is an analysis of the poem Who Sees What And From Where that begins with:

We are both on the same planet.
Perhaps not to experience the same environment....

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: AABC DEEFD AABC ghXbh DEEFD bdchXaaAABCXaXeed GacGcabXXXgb
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,5,4,5,5,17,12,
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: rondeau rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 11110110 01100100010100 1010100100 1010010001 1110000111 11011001 1110101101001 0001001011110 01011111101 11110110 01100100010100 1010100100 1010010001 11 1100101101010100 11101011001100 1111001 1101101110100100 1110000111 11011001 1110101101001 0001001011110 01011111101 111101 1111010001101 0111 111101111100 1111101 01001011011 1 11110110 01100100010100 1010100100 1010010001 11010000101011 1101001 01100101001011 01001 010100101 110111110101 11 011111 0101000101 11 1110010100010 11110100 11011001010 0010100110110 000101111101 101011110111 1101110 10100101001011100
  • Amount of stanzas: 7
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 285
  • Average number of words per stanza: 53
  • Amount of lines: 52
  • Average number of symbols per line: 38 (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; to, i, not, may, of, you, and are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word i is repeated.

    The author used the same word we at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.

    The poet repeated the same word concern at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.

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  • summary of Who Sees What And From Where;
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  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
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