This is an analysis of the poem But...Don'T You Think That's Stupid? that begins with:
Unflattering and degrading comments to me made! ?
If I had not been raised prepared to receive them, ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: a bXXbXa cX XcdXdd XX cX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 1,6,2,6,2,2,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 0100101010011 011101010010 11000101010111 1111111010010 11111101 110001 010100010 1111111 1001100111011 1 1111001 1011010 1111 111100111 01011111 1 1111101 0111 111111001
- Amount of stanzas: 6
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 101
- Average number of words per stanza: 20
- Amount of lines: 19
- Average number of symbols per line: 31 (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.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; to is repeated.
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