This is an analysis of the poem Pointless To Make Attempts With Common Sense that begins with:
Is a power taken,
The same as a power given? ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabcXd adaXbe ddXXecXea
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,6,9,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rondeau rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 001010 01101010 11110 1010110101 0110110 10110 1011101010 11010 1100111001 110111 1101010 10101101 00100101 0101 01001110 11010111011 00101000100 10100001010 11 0100001010010
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 150
- Average number of words per stanza: 28
- Amount of lines: 20
- Average number of symbols per line: 29 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 6
Mood of the speaker:
The speaker asks many questions. Perhaps, he or she is in confusion.
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; power, it are repeated.
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