This is an analysis of the poem To Do What I Should Have Done that begins with:
If I didn't,
Then who would? ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ab bX c X ca aX dad XX Xaac ee dX XXXa
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 2,2,1,1,2,2,3,2,4,2,2,4,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: rondeau rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 0110 111 111 111 111101 1001111 111 110101 111001 1111001 1101 01101100 0101 1 111101 1011110 11010 1 10011101 1 1111001 1111111 01011011 01010010 1 000
- Amount of stanzas: 13
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 39
- Average number of words per stanza: 9
- Amount of lines: 26
- Average number of symbols per line: 19 (very short strings)
- Average number of words per line: 4
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 poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word i is repeated.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines would is repeated).
The literary device anadiplosis is detected in two or more neighboring lines. The word/phrase it connects the lines.
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- summary of To Do What I Should Have Done;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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