This is an analysis of the poem In The Saying Of That 'No' that begins with:
Sometimes people have to be told 'no.
No debate....
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XaX aXb XXacXc abaX dXXXdXaXXXXdba
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 3,3,6,4,14,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 011010011 101 101 110100 0111 0101101 111011 01111 001010111 011 101010 1101 1101110001 011 101011101 1010100100010 111000110 1100010100101 01 11001100 1101011011 1010010011 011010111 0101101 010110100 110011 111 1100010 01010101
- Amount of stanzas: 6
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 136
- Average number of words per stanza: 24
- Amount of lines: 29
- 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:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; to is repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words to, some are repeated.
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- summary of In The Saying Of That 'No';
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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