This is an analysis of the poem If It's Thick And Sticks that begins with:
If it's thick and sticks,
Think of it as a benefit....
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: Abbcde bbefdbg bghbXdgXb Xdcigbhhjbdjd Ahbghbff bXbdiaX XXbhjdabg
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,7,9,13,8,7,9,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 00111 10010100 1011010 0101010100 111010 10101010100101 1110101 1001 1110001 0101101 100101 0101 00100001 11 1110010 1101 10100 10100010 1010 111001 11010 010101 001110 101001010 10100 1001 01010 100100 011 110100 1100 101111 0101 1110010 010 00111 0101100 010101 01011 0010111 010010 101 10101 111011 10010 10101 1110101 1110101 1010101 111101011 1 011001 11101 110101 1010 0101 11110 11110001 110010
- Amount of stanzas: 7
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 201
- Average number of words per stanza: 35
- Amount of lines: 59
- Average number of symbols per line: 23 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 4
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 author used the same word if at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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- summary of If It's Thick And Sticks;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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