This is an analysis of the poem If It Offends that begins with:
I awakened no longer beholdened,
To those emotional traps....
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XABCDEF XAed dXdfd XABCDEF XcfX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 7,4,5,7,4,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 10101101000 0101001 011101 01010 1011001 0100001110110 11111010100 10101101000 0101001 11101 011010001 110001001101 11011101 0110110100001 11111100 111101101 10101101000 0101001 011101 01010 1011001 0100001110110 11111010100 111110111101 1111110001 1110101000 1001110100001
- Amount of stanzas: 5
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 182
- Average number of words per stanza: 31
- Amount of lines: 27
- Average number of symbols per line: 33 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 6
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; i, to are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word i is repeated.
The author used the same word i at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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- summary of If It Offends;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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