This is an analysis of the poem I Have Given That Some Consideration that begins with:
Am I trying to win friends?
And influence people? ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ab Xcdeaf Xfffgfcdb cecgdX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 2,6,9,6,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1110011 110010 101101001 110111 10 101110011 10100111 11011111 1 11101101010 01011010 101001010 111010101010001 100111 11101001 1000100 111110100 1 0110001001 01011101001010 101 1100010010 111110010
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 174
- Average number of words per stanza: 31
- Amount of lines: 23
- Average number of symbols per line: 30 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 5
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.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word and is repeated.
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