This is an analysis of the poem At Least You Will Commit that begins with:
Let's see!
You don't know what you want? ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abcXddcbXbXaX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 13,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11 111111 1111111 10101011001010 10101011111 01000100011 1101010101 1010 1110010110010 111010101110 11101001010100 11 1111001
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 467
- Average number of words per stanza: 90
- Amount of lines: 13
- Average number of symbols per line: 35 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 7
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; you, to are repeated.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines you is repeated).
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- summary of At Least You Will Commit;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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