This is an analysis of the poem Even With Their Sunglasses On that begins with:
I do not pussyfoot or beat around bushes.
And I don't get offers to speak sweet messages either....
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aXXbcc cdecX Xffc XbXXgecd bbgabbgXgaede
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,5,4,8,13,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: enclosed rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 111101110110 11111001110010 1100 11100 101110100 1101101 01 0010011010010 100100011 101010011010 1110110101 1110010 111 1110001 1110010 1110000101 0110111101 111110010010 00100111 1 111100100111 01011 1110110011001 01 101111010111 10011101 11111010010100 100111000011101 111010010101001 0100010 1111101000101 000101010101 010110 1 11110000101110
- Amount of stanzas: 6
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 202
- Average number of words per stanza: 37
- Amount of lines: 35
- Average number of symbols per line: 34 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 6
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; i, to, their are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words in, and are repeated.
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- summary of Even With Their Sunglasses On;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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