This is an analysis of the poem I Will Say This that begins with:
I will say this.
'What? ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: a XX XbXbbXbb aXXb X XXbX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 1,2,8,4,1,4,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1010 1 1001 1 111010010 1101 1101000 11111110 10111010 11010 00110101001 11010 0100101 100101 11 1 1 111001101 010 11101110
- Amount of stanzas: 6
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 74
- Average number of words per stanza: 15
- Amount of lines: 20
- Average number of symbols per line: 22 (very short strings)
- 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; as, to are repeated.
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- summary of I Will Say This;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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