This is an analysis of the poem So Don'T Take This Personal that begins with:
Most of my life...
It was about 'they' and 'them'....
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aXXbcXXb daeXfXgeXX XdhXgcXdgXhXeadfXe
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,10,18,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1011 0101111 101010101111 0101110001100 110111 11111011010 0110110 01100100110 10110010100 1110101 110111110100 1000100010 10010100001 11101 010110 001011 10101010 1101111 001110 010100100 11 0111010010 1110 1010 110101 11100101 00110 1011010 01011101 111000100 1001001 110111011 10100101101 1 00101100 1110100
- Amount of stanzas: 3
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 365
- Average number of words per stanza: 67
- Amount of lines: 36
- 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 exclamation marks in the poem. The speaker is excited. He or she has strong feelings on the subject that is described in the poem.
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 not is repeated.
The author used the same word most at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
The literary device anadiplosis is detected in two or more neighboring lines. The word/phrase it connects the lines.
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- summary of So Don'T Take This Personal;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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