This is an analysis of the poem Is What You Do Done To Impress? that begins with:
Do what you like.
Do it with devotion....
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abbbbcddecXaef XXXc gffc Xb afcgfXXe
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 14,4,4,2,8,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: enclosed rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1111 100010 010101 011010 010100 110110 0110100 0110100100 1001010 110100 010 111010011 10111011010 1111 1111 11011 110101001 10100101 01111001 1 11100111 1001001011 11010011 101001 1011111 110111 111101001 010011111100100 010111 0001010 0111 1100101010101
- Amount of stanzas: 5
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 183
- Average number of words per stanza: 33
- Amount of lines: 32
- Average number of symbols per line: 28 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 5
Mood of the speaker:
The speaker asks many questions. Perhaps, he or she is in confusion.
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; your, to, you are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words do, you are repeated.
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- summary of Is What You Do Done To Impress?;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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