This is an analysis of the poem Why Bother To Ask The Question that begins with:
Why is it,
Whenever I hear someone say......
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aXXb XX Xb bXbcaacbddX eXe aXbdXX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,2,2,11,3,6,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 100 01011111 1110 101011101010 1 11 1111001111 11101010 11111110 1110101 11010101 111010101010 1 1011 1001 1001 111 1011 110010101 1111100010 11110011 11110011101100 111 011110 0111010 00011111 011111 011110
- Amount of stanzas: 6
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 120
- Average number of words per stanza: 25
- Amount of lines: 28
- 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; what, it are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words what, was, is are repeated.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines ', question are repeated).
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- summary of Why Bother To Ask The Question;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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