This is an analysis of the poem Refuse To Say A Thing that begins with:
One determine to depict themselves,
As a victim at someone else's expense......
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ABCCXdbd BXecdFXABCCBedF
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,15,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: ballad stanza
- Metre: 101000101 10101111001 001001101010 010010 101001 01011011 0010101001 111000011110 1100101010110 101 1010101 0101 1101 011001001 101000101 10101111001 001001101010 010010 1100101010110 010101 01011101 011001001
- Amount of stanzas: 3
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 240
- Average number of words per stanza: 44
- Amount of lines: 22
- Average number of symbols per line: 32 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 6
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 is repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word a is repeated.
The poet repeated the same word believe at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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- summary of Refuse To Say A Thing;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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