This is an analysis of the poem To Television that begins with:
Not a "window on the world"
But as we call you,...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: Xab cdcX bec efX fadX XedefX ffXXg gXdc
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 3,4,3,3,4,6,5,4,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 101001010 11111 0101 10001110 100101 100011 11010 101001 0101010010 110001011010 101 1110101 0010110001 0011110110101 10011101 1111011001 1111011111 1111100011 1010 011101110001 0100101 0101111011010 110101010 1111111 11010111011 110101010 010111111 1010010 1010111010 10111111 0100111 1010110
- Amount of stanzas: 8
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 130
- Average number of words per stanza: 23
- Amount of lines: 32
- Average number of symbols per line: 32 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 6
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; in, and, i are repeated.
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- summary of To Television;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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