This is an analysis of the poem 'What Point Are You Trying To Make? ' that begins with:
Which 'world' was that you said I lived in?
'Your own.'...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: a X bc X bdd eecffX X XXXfXbab
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 1,1,2,1,3,6,1,8,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 111111110 11 111011 110101101 11 1011101001111 11001110100 101110100 11001101 011101 1110100010 110100 1110 111111 111110011 111 110 1110110101 11010011010 01100011 11111001 1110111010 1110010001
- Amount of stanzas: 8
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 89
- Average number of words per stanza: 17
- Amount of lines: 23
- Average number of symbols per line: 30 (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.
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- summary of 'What Point Are You Trying To Make? ';
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- idea of the verse;
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