This is an analysis of the poem Quit Your Obsession With This that begins with:
When is enough enough?
When too much of it, ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: X aba aaXbcXXcXX XXX Xc
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 1,3,10,3,2,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 100101 11100 10010 101101000 1101001 010111010 11010 100101 1010101 100101 1 1 1 11011010001 0101 1110010 010100110 111 111
- Amount of stanzas: 5
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 84
- Average number of words per stanza: 15
- Amount of lines: 19
- Average number of symbols per line: 21 (very short strings)
- Average number of words per line: 4
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; and, it are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word when is repeated.
The author used the same word when at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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- summary of Quit Your Obsession With This;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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