This is an analysis of the poem A Mind Staying Limited that begins with:
Keeping busy doing something,
Other thinking of yourself......
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ABcX ABcX BD cXc ABcXBD
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,2,3,6,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 10101010 1010010 100 00101 10101010 1010010 100 01101 0110100101 011 001010101000111 1011100 010001 10101010 1010010 100 0110100101 011
- Amount of stanzas: 6
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 76
- Average number of words per stanza: 12
- Amount of lines: 18
- Average number of symbols per line: 25 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 4
Mood of the speaker:
There are many three dots in the poem. Readers should think of the author's idea together with the pensive speaker.
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- summary of A Mind Staying Limited;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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