This is an analysis of the poem In Need Of Tightening that begins with:
Those who pick up their telephones,
Calling around to those they 'befriend'......
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aXbXXaaXXbX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 11,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11111101 100101110 110111 0100 0110101010 11110100 00101011 11100101 01010011 0100111 0101001010
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 352
- Average number of words per stanza: 58
- Amount of lines: 11
- Average number of symbols per line: 31 (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.
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- summary of In Need Of Tightening;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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