This is an analysis of the poem Prosody 101 that begins with:
When they taught me that what mattered most
was not the strict iambic line goose-stepping...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abcadXefghgdbeXaXfhhcbXf
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 24,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: shakespearean sonnet
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 111111101 1101101110 1001101010 011101001 10110010100 1101110101 0100111010 00100101010 1100100101 11111101111 001010011010 101000100 01000010001 1101101110 100101101 0101101011 0100101100 1111110110 0111101110 011101011110 1111011011 1011010001 01010110100 111100100
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 942
- Average number of words per stanza: 177
- Amount of lines: 24
- 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.
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- summary of Prosody 101;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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