This is an analysis of the poem For Services Rendered that begins with:
What's the use of tap dancing...
If you are doing so in hush puppies? ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XaXXabXcbc
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 10,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1010110 0111010110 1101010 1011111100 11010 010000100001010 10100101 011100101 01101011010 110010
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 344
- Average number of words per stanza: 63
- Amount of lines: 10
- Average number of symbols per line: 34 (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.
If you write a school or university poetry essay, you should Include in your explanation of the poem:
- summary of For Services Rendered;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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