This is an analysis of the poem Mischievous Conceptions that begins with:
The best thing you can do for yourself,
Is 'be' yourself....
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aaXbXbcbXcXXXccaXc
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 18,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 011111110 0110 111010110 101010001 0001100 010010011 111101 1011111 00101111 1110100010 0110100 11101000001 01110101 110100 100110100 010 01111110 1010100010
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 608
- Average number of words per stanza: 95
- Amount of lines: 18
- Average number of symbols per line: 33 (medium-length strings)
- 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.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; with is repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word be is repeated.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines yourself is repeated).
If you write a school or university poetry essay, you should Include in your explanation of the poem:
- summary of Mischievous Conceptions;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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