This is an analysis of the poem Do Your Knickers Pinch? that begins with:
One who has a mind accustom and adjusted,
To initiative and purpose and has lived disciplined......
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aaXbcdeXbX ecX a XX Xbb XfgeX fh X XbgdhXfc hX gac X Xh
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 10,3,1,2,3,5,2,1,8,2,3,1,2,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 111010101010 00100110111100 001000100010001 010101010 0100010110010 01110010110 1010101011 11101010010 10100011111 1100110100110 1011111010010 1101001011010 110100110 1 1 1011 1101111 01011100100001 110101010 10 1111101 1 10111101 10001001 101 0110100010100 11 01101011101 11010 0110011 001101 101001001010 1100001010100 0101 101011010001 11100010100 00100110 1 111 111110 1001 11101 111011
- Amount of stanzas: 13
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 108
- Average number of words per stanza: 19
- Amount of lines: 43
- Average number of symbols per line: 32 (medium-length strings)
- 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; to, and, have are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word there is repeated.
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- summary of Do Your Knickers Pinch?;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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