This is an analysis of the poem Questioning The Obvious that begins with:
I have never said,
You were unbelievably ignorant....
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aXab bX XXXb X Xbab
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,2,4,1,4,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: rondeau
- Metre: 11101 1010100100 111010 1100100 100100 1110101 111010 1111111 01001 1110010110 111101001011 011101010 001011 1111111110 1011000100
- Amount of stanzas: 5
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 91
- Average number of words per stanza: 17
- Amount of lines: 15
- Average number of symbols per line: 30 (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.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; you is repeated.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines difference is repeated).
The literary device anadiplosis is detected in two or more neighboring lines. The word/phrase you connects the lines.
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- summary of Questioning The Obvious;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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