This is an analysis of the poem Haunted By Your Own Remarks that begins with:

Haunted by your own remarks?
That attacked someone without facts, ...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: aabXXXbXbaccXX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 14,
  • Closest metre: iambic trimeter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: sonnet with iambic trimeter or irregular meter
  • Metre: 1011101 10111011 001 1101100 11111011 101110101100 0100101 1101111 101101 110001101101 10001 11010111 11 01110110
  • Amount of stanzas: 1
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 436
  • Average number of words per stanza: 78
  • Amount of lines: 14
  • Average number of symbols per line: 30 (strings are less long than medium ones)
  • Average number of words per line: 6
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The speaker asks many questions. Perhaps, he or she is in confusion.

    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; you is repeated.

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  • summary of Haunted By Your Own Remarks;
  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
  • critical appreciation.

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