This is an analysis of the poem Chasing Pessimists Away that begins with:
Pessimists would say that optimism is a gag,
But......
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: AbC AdEf AbCB AdEf AbCBeeXAbCeEE
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 3,4,4,4,13,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1001111010001 1 101010000101 1111101010001 0 1110101110111 1001101010001 1001111010001 1 101010000101 1010100010111 1111101010001 0 1110101110111 11001101010001 1001111010001 1 101010000101 1010100010111 1101010111001 11010001111101 1001111010001 1 101010000101 11010100110101 101010101011 101010101011
- Amount of stanzas: 6
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 178
- Average number of words per stanza: 31
- Amount of lines: 27
- Average number of symbols per line: 39 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 7
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.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; optimistic, being are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words being, and are repeated.
The author used the same word pessimists at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines had is repeated).
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- summary of Chasing Pessimists Away;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
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