This is an analysis of the poem Having Not A Reason Or Purpose To Purchase that begins with:
There is something comfortable I found,
In the wearing of my own shoes....
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abcbaXbXd Xdaccae afXefdXcX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 9,7,9,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1010100011 00100111 11101 1111010 11110 10101 0111 111110010 101110100 110 1110010001 11101 0100100 110101111111 11010001 0111101 1 011100 10101011101 10010010 00100011 101010110010 0100 0110101111111 11110111
- Amount of stanzas: 3
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 251
- Average number of words per stanza: 46
- Amount of lines: 25
- Average number of symbols per line: 29 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 6
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; i is repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word i is repeated.
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- summary of Having Not A Reason Or Purpose To Purchase;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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