This is an analysis of the poem In Exchange For Forgiveness! that begins with:
I remember the days when ethnic jokes,
Were told to provoke one to respond......
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aXba acXb XccX Xaca
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rondeau rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1010011101 010011001 010010001111 01010100100 1011101000 110101 011001 0111 11001100100 1101011101 11010110010 1100110 10110 00101 101100111 010100010011010
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 143
- Average number of words per stanza: 25
- Amount of lines: 16
- Average number of symbols per line: 35 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 6
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, of are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word of is repeated.
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- summary of In Exchange For Forgiveness!;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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