This is an analysis of the poem I Do Things I Don'T Mean that begins with:

Why do the same people,
Playing the same unchanged games......

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: XabcaXXXbXd X X X d X b XcX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 11,1,1,1,1,1,1,3,
  • Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 110110 1001011 11011101010 11101001111 0101111 1110110101 00101011100 11001110101 11000100010 0101010101 0100001101 1010111 11111110011 11 111111111 111110100101 1111 1 0101111 1101110111
  • Amount of stanzas: 8
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 89
  • Average number of words per stanza: 17
  • Amount of lines: 20
  • Average number of symbols per line: 35 (medium-length strings)
  • Average number of words per line: 7
  • 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; to, i are repeated.

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  • summary of I Do Things I Don'T Mean;
  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
  • critical appreciation.

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