This is an analysis of the poem My Useless Foolishness that begins with:
Explicit are the thoughts I get,
When alone and thinking......
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ABCAD dXXee EfEfeXABCAD
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 5,5,11,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 01010111 101110 101111 01010 11010 111101100 1100100 11111 10111001 110100 111011 11100101010 111011 1010110110 10 01010111 101110 101111 01010 11010
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 132
- Average number of words per stanza: 23
- Amount of lines: 20
- Average number of symbols per line: 26 (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.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; i is repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word and is repeated.
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- summary of My Useless Foolishness;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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