This is an analysis of the poem Who Should I See For A Return Payment that begins with:
Why do you carry with you,
Pacifiers, blankets, a case of diapers......
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: Xaba Xa XXX XbX ccbX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,2,3,3,4,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1111001 101010010100 11001 100100001010 11101110100 110010100110 1101110 111101101 11110100101010 10100010 11111010 01101011110 1011 101001 1111001 00110110101
- Amount of stanzas: 5
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 111
- Average number of words per stanza: 21
- Amount of lines: 16
- Average number of symbols per line: 34 (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.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; of, to are repeated.
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- summary of Who Should I See For A Return Payment;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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