This is an analysis of the poem The Unborn that begins with:
Sometimes I can almost see, around our heads,
Like gnats around a streetlight in summer,...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aXXb XXX aX XbcXc
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,3,2,5,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: sonnet with iambic tetrameter or irregular meter
- Metre: 01111110111 1101010010 010111 01000 011101010 011000101 100101 01110101110 0011010 101101111 1011111100 10101001101 00110011 100001
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 123
- Average number of words per stanza: 22
- Amount of lines: 14
- Average number of symbols per line: 34 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 6
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
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- summary of The Unborn;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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