This is an analysis of the poem What They Do Best that begins with:
They complain of a lack of involvement,
But have chosen to qualify those...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ABCCABCCABCcXa ddX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 14,3,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1010010010 111001011 1100101 1111100101 1010010010 111001011 1100101 1111100101 1010010010 111001011 1100101 111101 11100100101100 111111 110000010 0101110 1101
- Amount of stanzas: 2
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 291
- Average number of words per stanza: 50
- Amount of lines: 17
- Average number of symbols per line: 33 (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.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines involved, purpose are repeated).
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- summary of What They Do Best;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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