This is an analysis of the poem May 1968 that begins with:
When the Dean said we could not cross campus
until the students gave up the buildings,...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abccXXdXeacXfXfccXbeXgeeXhgbXddaffebgh
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 38,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 1011111110 0101011010 111001 110101001 1011011010 1101001110 0110111 111101001 01110010 01001111 1111110101 1111 11001111 1101110101 1111110 11101 0110001101 111011101001 1010100100 011101001010 001110100 01011000101 101011111 1011001011 011101101 11011010 0010101011 1110110010 101001001 11010101 01001111111 11111110101 01101011111 101001101 11111101 010110101 01101001 110010011101110
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 1445
- Average number of words per stanza: 281
- Amount of lines: 38
- Average number of symbols per line: 37 (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; we, i are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words we, the are repeated.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines up is repeated).
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- summary of May 1968;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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