This is an analysis of the poem Seeking Someone To Empathize that begins with:
What do you mean,
I haven't shown you any sympathy? ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aXbcdbX eXdXXacXbe
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 7,10,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: enclosed rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1111 1101110100 11011111 010110011 1110100 1010111 101010 1110101 01110101010 11110110101 0110010010010 1111011001 111011011 01101001 1 1011111
- Amount of stanzas: 3
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 170
- Average number of words per stanza: 32
- Amount of lines: 16
- Average number of symbols per line: 31 (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; you, to are repeated.
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- summary of Seeking Someone To Empathize;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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