This is an analysis of the poem Often Done By Those Who Do Nothing that begins with:
I too use to 'think' it was from a selfishness,
When those refused to spend more time......
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aXbXb aabbc XacddX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 5,5,6,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rondeau rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 111010100100 11010111 100100100010 110010010 01101001001 111110100 011001101 1101011010010 01001111 0100010101010 110 00111111010 0100101101 0101111110 1110111010 111111
- Amount of stanzas: 3
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 207
- Average number of words per stanza: 35
- Amount of lines: 16
- Average number of symbols per line: 38 (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 is repeated.
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- summary of Often Done By Those Who Do Nothing;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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