This is an analysis of the poem Questions that begins with:
What do the roses do, mother,
Now that the summer's done?... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abXb abXb acbc
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: limerick
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11010110 110101 1100110101 110101 11010110 111111 111100110 110101 1111010 00110101 0011101011 10101101
- Amount of stanzas: 3
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 127
- Average number of words per stanza: 26
- Amount of lines: 12
- Average number of symbols per line: 31 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 7
Mood of the speaker:
The speaker asks many questions. Perhaps, he or she is in confusion.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; of is repeated.
The author used the same word what at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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- summary of Questions;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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