This is an analysis of the poem What Else Can You Tell Me that begins with:
Too many have been 'programmed',
To base their unsolicited opinions......
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: Xabcd ceeXdcfdc gaaXcaffg XgbdX XgXXchdehXX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 5,9,9,5,11,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11010100 01110100010 110111100 01010 110010101010 11111100010 11011001 1100101 100101110 11111 00101110 1001101000 1100010001 0101010011010 111110001 111111 1100101010010 01101000100110101 0110101101101101 0010101100101 0101001011100110000 1000101001101 01100101110011101 1 11101011 11110100 1110 11101001 1 01011 100 1111110111 010011 111011100111 11 11011111 101 10001 1110010
- Amount of stanzas: 5
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 275
- Average number of words per stanza: 49
- Amount of lines: 39
- Average number of symbols per line: 34 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 6
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 how is repeated.
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- summary of What Else Can You Tell Me;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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More information about poems by Lawrence S. Pertillar
- Analysis of Small Urban Towns
- Analysis of Your Basket Of Opinions
- Analysis of Those Mocking Birds I Use To Hear
