This is an analysis of the poem Please Forgive Them For What They Do that begins with:
The one thing I have noticed,
About those who choose to stay subservient......
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aaXbacdef ghXeichX jhfeklX XgX ffafea bdkXkiXX bhXXjdbd bhX lb X Xa X
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 9,8,7,3,6,8,8,3,2,1,2,1,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: enclosed rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 0111110 01111010100 0110001010 011100101101 0110101010010 111111100110 1001001 11000100100 1001 1 101011001010010 111111010 111011011001 0110011011000100 11111001110 1110001110011101 11010111 1111 11101110101101010 10101111 101111110111110 0111111101010 11111110110110 1011111111111 100 1 1001111011110101 11 0010100101 1010011100 11000110101 10100010 111111111 11 1111111101010 110 001111 11101010 101011000100110100 10101001100101 0011110101100 11001 1100101101 0100111110 111 11111011111101 11001010 011 111101010 11 0111101111 01111100101100 111010 1101111 110 1 1 10110110101
- Amount of stanzas: 12
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 177
- Average number of words per stanza: 32
- Amount of lines: 58
- Average number of symbols per line: 36 (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, i, at, and, ya'll are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word their is repeated.
The poet repeated the same word ' at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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- summary of Please Forgive Them For What They Do;
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- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
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