This is an analysis of the poem Unaccustomed To Having An Identity that begins with:
Have you ever been in a situation,
In which you insulted others......
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ABCDXefeeegafXbhbg ABCDXhe
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 18,7,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11100001010 01101010 1110100 0010111101 1100101011 1001010 011010100010100 1 0010 1 1101110110 10101001010 01001101001010100 0101011 11011111 11101001010101 111 10 11100001010 01101010 1110100 0010111101 101111101 001101
- Amount of stanzas: 3
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 253
- Average number of words per stanza: 45
- Amount of lines: 24
- Average number of symbols per line: 31 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- 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; you, to are repeated.
The author used the same word have at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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- summary of Unaccustomed To Having An Identity;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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