This is an analysis of the poem Where Did You Leave Your Investment? that begins with:
How can you seriously expect,
To be regarded as significant? ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: AAXaBbXa AAaBaXXaABXAAABbbab
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,19,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: limerick
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 111100001 0001010100 1001101011000 101000101 10100010 01011 00110100 100010100 111100001 0001010100 1110111010 10100010 11001101 111000101 011001010 1010100101 00100111010 11100101 111100001 0001010100 00100111010 11100101 101001 101010010001 100 1110110100100
- Amount of stanzas: 3
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 297
- Average number of words per stanza: 48
- Amount of lines: 26
- Average number of symbols per line: 33 (medium-length strings)
- 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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