This is an analysis of the poem This You Do Too Often that begins with:
I hear you when you say,
You mean well....
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XAbXbb AbXcdc AdXee
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,6,5,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 111111 111 1111101 110 0110001001 1110 111 1001101 101010 11111 1011110 11011010001 111 110110010 1101011110 0010 1101101100
- Amount of stanzas: 3
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 151
- Average number of words per stanza: 30
- Amount of lines: 17
- 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.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; you, it are repeated.
The author used the same word you at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
The literary device anadiplosis is detected in two or more neighboring lines. The word/phrase you connects the lines.
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- summary of This You Do Too Often;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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