This is an analysis of the poem What Can One Do Or Say That Doesn'T Offend? that begins with:

Living in an environment,
Where there are disrespectful children......

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: abcdXXX e bbbc fegfbbfXc bfhX gaacXd Xbfh
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 7,1,4,9,4,6,4,
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: rondeau rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 10010100 111101010 1011101011 11011 01101011110101 01111 1101 11111111001 11000010010100101 11 1010010110001 1101101101011 1100101001100100 101 111 1011110110 0100100100110 1110100010101110 111010011 10111011 11011011 01001101010011010 010100 101010001000100 1111010001110010 1101101 0101 11011010110 1110101101 100101101001 1011011101 110111 0101110101001 00100100110 1111110
  • Amount of stanzas: 7
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 197
  • Average number of words per stanza: 34
  • Amount of lines: 35
  • Average number of symbols per line: 39 (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; to is repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word and is repeated.

    The author used the same word and at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.

    There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines children is repeated).

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  • summary of What Can One Do Or Say That Doesn'T Offend?;
  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
  • critical appreciation.

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