This is an analysis of the poem Who Started This Mess? that begins with:
I am not the cause or reason,
For anyone's kept dysfunctions....
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abXcXdXdeffghi ajkbfdddkXjjXX jfdhdbcXX jibjad kcdghXjfffbe bfdXj jkcidjaXXjbb
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 14,14,9,6,12,5,12,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11101110 11011010 111011 10110100 1101010100 100111000 100101010 1110100001 011001 11100010 100111100 1110111010 011010100 00100001001 111010 01110111 010111001 110111010 101110010001 111110011101 01001010110011 101011111001 110010001101 11110010 1010011 010101 110 1 1110001 1011110101 011100111 0001010000100 010110101111 1110110011010 1111110100 101101111101 10110100101 1111001 0101111 010101001 111010101 110111 10100001 111 1 10100110010001 11010101010010 011110101 111001001010110 11111101110 00101110 11011101101101 010100011111 100111001010 01001110001 1111 0100101010001 1110110101 1000101 1011001101 10101 110000111 0100000100 11001001 00 1011010101 110101010 011111 010101000101 11100010010 10110101010 110010101101
- Amount of stanzas: 7
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 374
- Average number of words per stanza: 67
- Amount of lines: 72
- Average number of symbols per line: 35 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 7
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; i, to, and, it are repeated.
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- summary of Who Started This Mess?;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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