This is an analysis of the poem If I Can Not Fight With Pen that begins with:
If I can not fight with pen,
And motivate you to curtail your woes......
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abcbbcac X cdbcbXc efbXX gXeXaX XhgX d XfgXhhX X XX X bX hXh X aX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,1,7,5,6,4,1,7,1,2,1,2,3,1,2,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 0111101 1101100111 1100 1111 0101101 011101 1010011 0100 1 11100 11 1110 1 10101 11101 111010 1 110101 011101011111 0010011111 1111 1 11111101 11 010001 0111111 0101001001 11 1111010101 111001 0001011100 1111101010111 1 11010001010 11101010011 111 11011 11 01110101 1 101 1101111 1 111 110111001001 0110101 111011110 111101111 1 11 11101010111
- Amount of stanzas: 15
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 86
- Average number of words per stanza: 16
- Amount of lines: 51
- Average number of symbols per line: 25 (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; you is repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words and, to are repeated.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines ' is repeated).
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