This is an analysis of the poem Focus More On Motive that begins with:
Please,
Why can't you give me time......
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aBCD aECD FGcFHFFC FGcFHFFC aBCD aECD GcFHFFCXGCFGC
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,8,8,4,4,13,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1 111111 001011 0101010 1 1111101 001111 00111010 110 101110 1 110 01010001 1110 10101 001110111 110 101110 1 110 01010001 1110 10101 001110111 11 111111 001011 0101010 11 1111101 001111 00111010 11100101110 1 110 01010001 1110 10101 001110111 11100101110 001110111 110 101110 001110111
- Amount of stanzas: 8
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 125
- Average number of words per stanza: 24
- Amount of lines: 44
- Average number of symbols per line: 22 (very short strings)
- Average number of words per line: 4
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; need is repeated.
The author used the same words please, i, what at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
The poet repeated the same words comfort, need at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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- summary of Focus More On Motive;
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