This is an analysis of the poem I Often Wonder About This When I Am Solicited that begins with:
It is difficult to remain objective...
When a solicitation comes....
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: AbCDC ecdcd AbCDC XXaca XdXbbbXde
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 5,5,5,5,9,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 00100001010 10010101 001001010101 10100010 011 11110111 001010 01001010 001010 110100101110100 00100001010 100010101 001001010101 10100010 011 110010010 01110 101 101111011101 11110001101 11111111001 1 1111101 10111101 101101 001001010 10110001 1100111
- Amount of stanzas: 6
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 141
- Average number of words per stanza: 25
- Amount of lines: 28
- Average number of symbols per line: 29 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 5
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; what, i are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word what is repeated.
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