This is an analysis of the poem Give Them My Regards that begins with:
Why is it people pretend innocence,
When someone stops and refuses......
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abcdb efghbc edbia adbfd XhcX d hX XheB aiX Xja XXfjbgiafB
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 5,6,5,5,4,1,2,4,3,3,10,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1001001100 11111010 001010000 10110 111010100 1010100110111 0101111111010 01010100100010 1110101 1010001 101010001 1001011111 110101010010010 10101011011000010 1100100001011 111000111111100 100 01001010100010 1101010000101 11 11010101010100 1 111 11011010111 11101100111 01 11010011 1101111 11 011 11010 10101 101011100 1011000010011 111010101000101 111 110010 110101111100 11111011111 10101011011 1010100 11110010110100 1011101110110 1110101011001 1011101 1 10101
- Amount of stanzas: 12
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 136
- Average number of words per stanza: 25
- Amount of lines: 47
- 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.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; you, to are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words not, and are repeated.
The author used the same word why at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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- summary of Give Them My Regards;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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