This is an analysis of the poem Something About Their Jokes Told that begins with:
Why is it,
That those who once provoked......
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabbcX deebXX dXXcXe
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,6,6,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 100 111101 1011 1101 10101 1010101 100 10111011 110001100010 1100111001 11001111 110100110 101 1111001 01011001 1011010101 00110 101101101010
- Amount of stanzas: 3
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 178
- Average number of words per stanza: 30
- Amount of lines: 18
- Average number of symbols per line: 29 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 5
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 Something About Their Jokes Told;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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