This is an analysis of the poem Why Are You Trying To Be Different? that begins with:
There will always be people,
Who say they know another......
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abcdXeffcafe XX ff gX hiigg iX XiXi cffXX Xjh X hffcijd XX Xb
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 12,2,2,2,5,2,4,5,3,1,7,2,2,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1011010 1111010 101110 00101011 01111010001 110100110 10111111 001011101 10111 0110101011011 010100101 011100101101010 1 11111001001 11 101 1011101 10111110 1111110100 111110110011 101101 111 01101 1111 111 10 1101 001010 0111110111 111010 1 1101 111101010010 1010001111111 10 111111 11101 110 11 1011 1 111010011 11 111100001100 111101001111 1 11 111100010 111010100
- Amount of stanzas: 13
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 103
- Average number of words per stanza: 20
- Amount of lines: 49
- Average number of symbols per line: 27 (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; to, you, i, of are repeated.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines what is repeated).
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- summary of Why Are You Trying To Be Different?;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
Good luck in your poetry interpretation practice!
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