This is an analysis of the poem Too Much A Fool that begins with:
Have I been over demanding,
With no love I show for you? ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abCD abCD ecd Xcd XXcd eXcdbdX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,3,3,4,7,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11010010 0111111 11 101101 11010010 1111101 11 101101 1011110 1 110101 0101 1 10101 11101010 1111001 11 101011 10111010 1110111 11 101001 11 111001 110
- Amount of stanzas: 6
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 89
- Average number of words per stanza: 19
- Amount of lines: 25
- Average number of symbols per line: 21 (very short strings)
- Average number of words per line: 4
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; i is repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word have is repeated.
The author used the same word have at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
The poet repeated the same word fool at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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- summary of Too Much A Fool;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
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