This is an analysis of the poem No I Wont Play The Fool Or Your Sucker Punch Catcher that begins with:

I want you it's true.
Since you've been there in my mind....

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: ABBC ABBC bdcdbEE AbEE aXebee AXEe
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,7,4,6,4,
  • Closest metre: iambic trimeter
  • Сlosest rhyme: rondeau rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 11101 1101011 1011001 01010111 11101 1101011 1011001 01010111 011001 11010111 111101 101111101 1 111011010 11111010 11101 1 111011010 11111010 11111 1111011010001 1010 1111 1111011110110 1010 11101 1 111011010 011101111010
  • Amount of stanzas: 6
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 137
  • Average number of words per stanza: 28
  • Amount of lines: 29
  • Average number of symbols per line: 28 (strings are less long than medium ones)
  • Average number of words per line: 6
  • 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 author used the same word i at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.

    The poet repeated the same words time, over at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.

If you write a school or university poetry essay, you should Include in your explanation of the poem:

  • summary of No I Wont Play The Fool Or Your Sucker Punch Catcher;
  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
  • critical appreciation.

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