This is an analysis of the poem Today Not Too Many Are Interested that begins with:
If I should dare to be so creative,
I would first set out for my mind to seek......
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aXbcbX adXdXd Xccdcb
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,6,6,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 0111001010 1111111101 1110101101 11111001010 11100010 0101111 01110011010 001000010100 1101010010110 10101101 1010001 110101 01110010001 11011001101010 11000100010101010 001001101100001 101111011000 0101100000101101
- Amount of stanzas: 3
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 243
- Average number of words per stanza: 44
- Amount of lines: 18
- Average number of symbols per line: 40 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 7
Mood of the speaker:
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; my, i, to are repeated.
The author used the same word if at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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- summary of Today Not Too Many Are Interested;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
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