This is an analysis of the poem Questions that begins with:
Write me what you're wearing! Is it warm?
Write me how you lie! Do you lie there softly?...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aXaa bXbX XXc Xbc
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,3,3,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: sonnet with trochaic pentameter or irregular meter
- Metre: 111110001 11111111110 1111100101 1111100011 111111101 1111101110110 111110000 11111100001 10110110110 111010111 11101110011 011011101101 1111101 11011010101
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 152
- Average number of words per stanza: 31
- Amount of lines: 14
- Average number of symbols per line: 43 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 9
Mood of the speaker:
There are many exclamation marks in the poem. The speaker is excited. He or she has strong feelings on the subject that is described in the poem.
The speaker asks many questions. Perhaps, he or she is in confusion.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; write, me, it, you, i are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word write is repeated.
The author used the same word write at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
The poet repeated the same word you at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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- summary of Questions;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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More information about poems by Bertolt Brecht
- Analysis of Future Generations
- Analysis of Pleasures (Translation With The Original German,
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