This is an analysis of the poem Refusing To Become Anyone's 'Grief' Co-Pilot that begins with:
I don't drip or sob tears.
Like some who have a gift for it....
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abXXXX cXXaccdXb eXbed
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,9,5,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 111111 11110110 1101101 01110 1001 01101100011 10101100 01010001 1101010100 10110001 010110111 11101100 101101 1110010101 0100011011110 101101011 111011 100 111 0101011011101
- Amount of stanzas: 3
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 208
- Average number of words per stanza: 40
- Amount of lines: 20
- 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:
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.
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- summary of Refusing To Become Anyone's 'Grief' Co-Pilot;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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