This is an analysis of the poem When I Speak, You Begin To Write that begins with:
What are 'we' will to give...
And, ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abccXX dXef fXe dee ghbh XbgX eg fedcX Xae
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,4,3,3,4,4,2,5,3,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 111001 1 0111 0110101 0110100011 0010011 11100101 1010101001 10101011101 0101 1111101011 011000101 010001 11010001 1100101011 1111111001101 1111001 01011101110 0111111 1110100010 111001110 11110010101 010100101 111111111 1 110101 111 10101 11 11111010111 1110 10 1111 1111111
- Amount of stanzas: 9
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 112
- Average number of words per stanza: 20
- Amount of lines: 34
- 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:
The speaker asks many questions. Perhaps, he or she is in confusion.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; to, and are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word to is repeated.
The author used the same word could at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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- summary of When I Speak, You Begin To Write;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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