This is an analysis of the poem The Way Things Should that begins with:
What will
our children do in the morning?...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abcdeeafgXXggfedbfc
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 19,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: shakespearean sonnet
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 10 11010010 0110111001 011 1 01110101110 01001011 11101010 010010 01 1101011011110111 11101010011010001 11101 10001111011001 10101010101101 010101111111 1011010010 011111 1
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 652
- Average number of words per stanza: 128
- Amount of lines: 19
- Average number of symbols per line: 33 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 7
Mood of the speaker:
The speaker asks many questions. Perhaps, he or she is in confusion.
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- summary of The Way Things Should;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
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