This is an analysis of the poem Uncomfortable With Themselves that begins with:
I am a slave to spontaneity.
I can not see myself, ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: AXXbcdX dcXbbdX AdbXbXb eeeXbX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 7,7,7,6,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1101010100 111111 101001 11101010100 011111 010100010 10111001010 1101 011101101 00100101010 10101111001 01010100 00100001 10101110 1101010100 10101010 1101011010 11111 01000001 10110100111001 110111010 101 1111011011 1111011 111010 11 1010011
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 212
- Average number of words per stanza: 38
- Amount of lines: 27
- 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 punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; to is repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word i is repeated.
The literary device anadiplosis is detected in two or more neighboring lines. The word/phrase please connects the lines.
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- summary of Uncomfortable With Themselves;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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