This is an analysis of the poem "The Dreadful Has Already Happened&Quot; that begins with:

The relatives are leaning over, staring expectantly.
They moisten their lips with their tongues. I can feel ...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: XaXb cXXc aXXb Xdee XXeX deXX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: blank verse
  • Metre: 010011010101000 11011011111 0101111010001 10101010001 01101011010 110010111001 1100100101110 011011111 0111001010011 1001101010110 1111011010 111000001 01101010 1001011011 101101011101 0110011001 0100111101011 1110110101110 100110101001 010111111 111100101 10001011101010 0100101101001011 110110101011
  • Amount of stanzas: 6
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 197
  • Average number of words per stanza: 35
  • Amount of lines: 24
  • Average number of symbols per line: 48 (strings are more long than medium ones)
  • Average number of words per line: 9
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; i, his are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words my, i, the are repeated.

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

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  • summary of "The Dreadful Has Already Happened&Quot;;
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  • history of its creation;
  • critical appreciation.

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