This is an analysis of the poem Things that begins with:
What happened is, we grew lonely
living among the things,...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abcdbX bebef bXd cfXXXa
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,5,3,6,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11001110 100101 1110101 0101 010111 10101001 1101101 11111 111011 11110 01010010 101111011 0100101 01001101 1011011 1010110 1101001 0111 0101 11110010
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 134
- Average number of words per stanza: 26
- Amount of lines: 20
- Average number of symbols per line: 26 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 5
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
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- summary of Things;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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