This is an analysis of the poem Don'T Ask Don'T Tell...What? that begins with:
Don't ask?
Don't tell...what? ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aXbb cXXcX XXab
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,5,4,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11 110 101000101 00100010101 110001100 010001001 10100 1001110 10011010100 110111 110011011000 1101101 010110101001
- Amount of stanzas: 3
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 133
- Average number of words per stanza: 23
- Amount of lines: 13
- Average number of symbols per line: 30 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 5
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.
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- summary of Don'T Ask Don'T Tell...What?;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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