This is an analysis of the poem Should This Make A Difference that begins with:
Should it make a difference,
To the one accustomed to looking up......
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: AXXXb AXaAa abacaab Addcdb
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 5,5,7,6,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1010100 0010100101 1011111 010010000 101011101001 1010100 1100111110 01111101 1010100 011101001000 1100010100 011101011011010 10111001010100 101 1 110010001001 00110101001010101 1010100 0111100111 01110 1 010010 1001011
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 199
- Average number of words per stanza: 35
- Amount of lines: 23
- Average number of symbols per line: 34 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 6
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; to, this are repeated.
The author used the same word should at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
If you write a school or university poetry essay, you should Include in your explanation of the poem:
- summary of Should This Make A Difference;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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