This is an analysis of the poem How Can Anyone Be Convinced that begins with:
How can anyone be convinced,
That the banging of their head against a wall......
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: AXXaXX bbc Addcca XXc
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,3,6,3,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 11100001 10100110101 11010100 1011101010100 111101111 011101001111 10010000111 11011011100 01111001 11100001 011011011 11001001000 10010010 01011011101 1101011010 1101101101 101100100111 010111101001
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 188
- Average number of words per stanza: 34
- Amount of lines: 18
- Average number of symbols per line: 41 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 8
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; to is repeated.
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- summary of How Can Anyone Be Convinced;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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