This is an analysis of the poem If You'Ve Got Issues You'Ve Got Issues that begins with:

Aren't you curious and find it strange,
That those who ridicule and complain......

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: XabcXde XfgbXX Xa gebX Xbabaedhd bbbXXX XfbX XfXXhcc
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 7,6,2,4,9,6,4,7,
  • Closest metre: iambic trimeter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 1011001101 111101101 0111011011 1011010011 101010101101 01011 01001111010 1 110100 11110110 1111101101 11110010 1010011010 1000 111010 1101110100 1111101 011111 110010011 100 1101 001000101010 011011 111001010 011010 011101110 010111110 01000110 10101 101101 1101 11011110010 0111011 01111000 1 1111 11111111 11001100 1 1011101 010111 110 111 11101
  • Amount of stanzas: 9
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 136
  • Average number of words per stanza: 26
  • Amount of lines: 44
  • Average number of symbols per line: 27 (strings are less long than medium ones)
  • Average number of words per line: 5
  • 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; and, to, i, you are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word i is repeated.

    There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines go is repeated).

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  • summary of If You'Ve Got Issues You'Ve Got Issues;
  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
  • critical appreciation.

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