This is an analysis of the poem It Could Only Mean One Thing that begins with:
My mission is to excite.
Not to bore as if that was my expertise....
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ABBC deeef ABBC dgfcdXbh hgXX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,5,4,8,4,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1100001 10110111101 1001011011010 01010011101 1110101101 1100100 10010011101 10010001101001 1001100001010101 1100001 10110111101 1001011011010 01010011101 100110100001001010 1 11001 01010111001 100101010 0110111 1101000110011 0110010110010 1 1 010001010101001 0100011100111100
- Amount of stanzas: 5
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 190
- Average number of words per stanza: 34
- Amount of lines: 25
- Average number of symbols per line: 37 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 7
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, one, it are repeated.
The author used the same word and at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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- summary of It Could Only Mean One Thing;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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