This is an analysis of the poem Be Quick About It that begins with:
Remember...
It was not me....
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aBCDEFCgCHI cjekX l XkX flgibjacdkbjfjl aBCDEdFbCbXcCHIkc
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 11,5,1,3,15,17,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: enclosed rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 010 0111 11 1111000101 111010 111011 111101001101 11010101 11 11011001110101 1110101001111 11110101 0001011000100 11111111101 1 11011101 1111010011111 1 1 11 10101100011 010 1100111101 10101110101 111111 0010010111110100 111010 101101001 1100101110101 011101000 1111101 0101100 11 11100110 001001100110101 010 0111 11 1111000101 111010 111101 111011 0101 111101001101 11111011101 110101000 11001111111 11 11011001110101 1110101001111 101010 11101
- Amount of stanzas: 6
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 262
- Average number of words per stanza: 51
- Amount of lines: 52
- Average number of symbols per line: 29 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 6
Mood of the speaker:
The speaker asks many questions. Perhaps, he or she is in confusion.
There are many three dots in the poem. Readers should think of the author's idea together with the pensive speaker.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; you, to, i, and, of are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words you, i, and are repeated.
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- summary of Be Quick About It;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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