This is an analysis of the poem What Work Is that begins with:
We stand in the rain in a long line
waiting at Ford Highland Park. For work....
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aXbccdecaeffeaaghdiXXeiebhcXadcijffegjaahf
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 42,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: enclosed rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 110010011 101110111 1111001 101010111 101111110 011000110 100110010 100111011 001110110 0111111110 010110110 111100110 1010111010 100010101 110011101 11110100 010100100 100101010 001011101 010101011 111010110 101111110 110011101 011011110 110111011 010111100 110100011 110111111 011010010 1110011111 10010111 011010010 111001111 11110110 101111111 110101110 1101101100 101111111 1011101101 101000100 010001011 101111110
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 1545
- Average number of words per stanza: 289
- Amount of lines: 42
- Average number of symbols per line: 36 (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; your, you, to, or are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word not is repeated.
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- summary of What Work Is;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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