This is an analysis of the poem Sweet And Soft Whispers that begins with:
I may not be a bit psychic...
But I know it's there....
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aBcc abdd eebb abbcb XfBfcb aXXb
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,5,6,4,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11100110 11101 110111 0011110 11110010 1110110001 1101101 0101101 10111101 01111111 11110101 111110011 111100110 111001 1101110001 00111110 1100110101 1 10101101 11101 111101 111110010 0111101 1110010 111111 11 01
- Amount of stanzas: 6
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 128
- Average number of words per stanza: 28
- Amount of lines: 27
- Average number of symbols per line: 28 (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; i, me are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word and is repeated.
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- summary of Sweet And Soft Whispers;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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