This is an analysis of the poem So Self-Obsessed that begins with:
Many today so self-obsessed,
And live to thrive to pride themselves on it......
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aaXba bbbaX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 5,5,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: limerick
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 10011101 1101010110 00010101001010 10101111001 10110100001 0110000010 11110101010 1000101010101010 110100111101 101011011111010
- Amount of stanzas: 2
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 235
- Average number of words per stanza: 39
- Amount of lines: 10
- Average number of symbols per line: 46 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 8
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 So Self-Obsessed;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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