This is an analysis of the poem The Fact That You Watch My Back that begins with:
Why would I question,
The fact that you watch my back? ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XabcXdbe acdaXbXe
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,8,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: limerick
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11110 0111111 10111 01100111 011101 11111 101011 110101 1111 1111100 01101 1111 0010111 00111101 0111011010 11011110
- Amount of stanzas: 2
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 217
- Average number of words per stanza: 41
- Amount of lines: 16
- Average number of symbols per line: 26 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 5
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.
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- summary of The Fact That You Watch My Back;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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