This is an analysis of the poem What Else Can You Do? that begins with:
What else can they do?
After they have offended, ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abccabbdbeXffAGEBAEHHDBAaaAGEBAEHHDBaec
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 39,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: limerick
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11111 1011010 0101 10001 10101 10110010 1001011 0010 11110111 001001111 0100 111101011 1111011001 11111 1101011010010 1101 111101110011 11111 110110 101001 1110101 11111 10011001 11111 101111111 1110111011 11111 1101011010010 1101 111101110011 11111 110110 101001 1110101 11111 10011001 11011 1110101 111
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 1164
- Average number of words per stanza: 209
- Amount of lines: 39
- Average number of symbols per line: 29 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 5
Mood of the speaker:
There are many exclamation marks in the poem. The speaker is excited. He or she has strong feelings on the subject that is described in the poem.
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 is repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word and is repeated.
If you write a school or university poetry essay, you should Include in your explanation of the poem:
- summary of What Else Can You Do?;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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