This is an analysis of the poem Go Ahead that begins with:
You want to sit and weep?
Well......
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: AbC DbC EFbCC ggCXgCC hhccCC AbC DbCXEFbCChh
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 3,3,5,7,6,3,11,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: rondeau rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 110111 1 101 1101111 1 101 11011011 1010100 1 101 101 111 11110 101 101 11110101 101 101 111100010101 111111110001 1101 111111101 101 101 110111 1 101 1101111 1 101 11011011 1010100 1 101 101 111 1100010101
- Amount of stanzas: 8
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 88
- Average number of words per stanza: 17
- Amount of lines: 37
- Average number of symbols per line: 18 (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; go, ahead are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word go is repeated.
The author used the same word you at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines ahead is repeated).
The poet repeated the same word ahead at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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- summary of Go Ahead;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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