This is an analysis of the poem Why Are You Asking 'Me' Those Questions? that begins with:
'What can I do?
When the world seems so screwed up.'...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme:
- Stanza lengths (in strings):
- Closest metre:
- Сlosest rhyme:
- Сlosest stanza type:
- Guessed form:
- Metre:
- Amount of stanzas: 6
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 225
- Average number of words per stanza: 44
- Amount of lines: 52
- Average number of symbols per line: 25 (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.
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; i, you, my are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words will, with are repeated.
The author used the same word 'what at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
The poet repeated the same word ask at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
The literary device anadiplosis is detected in two or more neighboring lines. The word/phrase do connects the lines.
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- summary of Why Are You Asking 'Me' Those Questions?;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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