This is an analysis of the poem What Substitutes Do You Use that begins with:
If you understood to understand,
With an acceptance to comprehend......
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabbXaXXXX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 10,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: limerick
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 011010101 010100101 1110101010 01110010 0111001001 1101111101 1101111 10010101111 1110110 001010100
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 361
- Average number of words per stanza: 66
- Amount of lines: 10
- Average number of symbols per line: 35 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 7
Mood of the speaker:
The speaker asks many questions. Perhaps, he or she is in confusion.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; you is repeated.
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- summary of What Substitutes Do You Use;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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