This is an analysis of the poem 'These Are Desperate Times For You, Aren'T They? ' that begins with:
If,
I were fed pigeon......
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: Xaa bcb XDeX dXXfg XDXfged XX c XXeX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 3,3,4,5,7,2,1,4,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 0 10110 11111010 01001 10101 1111101 101111 101111100 1111111 100111001100 1011101 0111101 11011 001010 1111 101111 101111100 111 11110010 1011 1 11001 11100111 1011 11111 110010 101101 1 11011111
- Amount of stanzas: 8
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 91
- Average number of words per stanza: 18
- Amount of lines: 29
- Average number of symbols per line: 24 (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.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; i is repeated.
The author used the same words if, and at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
If you write a school or university poetry essay, you should Include in your explanation of the poem:
- summary of 'These Are Desperate Times For You, Aren'T They? ';
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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