This is an analysis of the poem Resentment? that begins with:
Resentment?
I have never met anyone, ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abcaadadedd aXXbXebeee aXececXade
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 11,10,10,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 010 11101100 0010011 1010010 01100100001 10101 10111110100 11010011 11001 10101011 11001010001 010 11010111 111110110 0010100 1010101011 10010 01010100101 0010010001101 1011010 010010110001 010 11101000011110 0101 111010010 1100101101 0001010110100100 010 1100111 0011101
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 238
- Average number of words per stanza: 39
- Amount of lines: 30
- Average number of symbols per line: 31 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 5
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; of is repeated.
The author used the same word resentment at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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- summary of Resentment?;
- central theme;
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