This is an analysis of the poem Even If They Have To Steal Images that begins with:
I am sorry Mister Thief.
But it is difficult for me to believe, ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aXXbXXX XX aa bcdcd
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 7,2,2,5,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1110101 10010011001 11100110100 100101111001 1010 11111011011 1010010111 1 11111101 101 101 10100 101100 0110010 1101 1001101100
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 109
- Average number of words per stanza: 21
- Amount of lines: 16
- Average number of symbols per line: 27 (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.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; to is repeated.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines thief is repeated).
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- summary of Even If They Have To Steal Images;
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