This is an analysis of the poem Why Have You Not Written Anything About The Jews? that begins with:

Why have you not written anything about the Jews?
'Nothing about them motivates me to do so.'...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: a X B X c X c XX cddBe afXXagXdXg eb Xeaefg aage cbX Xg X
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 1,1,1,1,1,1,1,2,5,10,2,6,4,3,2,1,
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: couplets
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 1111101010101 100101011011 11011110010 11011001001 1 1010010101 1 1101101010 100101011011 1 111 1 11011110010 1101011010 11 1011 10010110011011 1111010110000 111001001110 0100100111 00100100 111001100101 1101101100110 1010 1111110 10010110010 11110101101000 110010100111011 110110010101001 0111100111 11110011110 111 010010011 0100010111 01011 1111010001 1 110110010010 10010001010001 01000100111100 111110011 101110101010101
  • Amount of stanzas: 16
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 92
  • Average number of words per stanza: 17
  • Amount of lines: 42
  • Average number of symbols per line: 35 (medium-length strings)
  • Average number of words per line: 6
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; to is repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words and, to are repeated.

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