This is an analysis of the poem This Poem Is About Agitation that begins with:

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  • Rhyme scheme: Abb XcXd bccaca Ab eXefXaeX fXc dX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 3,4,6,2,8,3,2,
  • Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: couplets
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 1001001 1 1100100101 1 10100100111 00101110001001 111010 110111101011101 1111010010101 010001 1101111 1101100010010100 11001111101 1001001 100100101 0100011010101001100 000110101010101 111111111100100 0100100111 1 1110101000100100 101011101 10101000111 11 11110101011110 1010111010 110 101
  • Amount of stanzas: 7
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 144
  • Average number of words per stanza: 24
  • Amount of lines: 28
  • Average number of symbols per line: 35 (medium-length strings)
  • Average number of words per line: 6
  • 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; and, those are repeated.

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  • summary of This Poem Is About Agitation;
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  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
  • critical appreciation.

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