This is an analysis of the poem Pointless Perturbation that begins with:
Sometimes I am humored,
By those with shallow depth....
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abXbacd Xaefghe iahXfdc XXf gff fXiahi
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 7,7,7,3,3,6,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 011110 110101 01100 10011001 1010110010 0111010001 11111010 0111011 1111100 11110 01001110111 10110 1110001011 01111000101101 1110 111011101 111001 111010100 101 1101010 1010001100 10011110 110101001 1101111101 1110110 11101101 1100101011 1 111101 11101 1001 101010100 101010
- Amount of stanzas: 6
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 168
- Average number of words per stanza: 29
- Amount of lines: 33
- Average number of symbols per line: 30 (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; to, i are repeated.
The author used the same words sometimes, and at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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- summary of Pointless Perturbation;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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