This is an analysis of the poem Why Should 'You' Care? that begins with:

Why should 'you' care?
Uniforms were adorned, ...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: A bbcddXefgbdb A hdhdfXc A dfXdXceXagdffb
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 1,12,1,7,1,14,
  • Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: enclosed rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 1111 101001 00111011101 00100 11110011 101000100101 11111110 1101 0101010001 1011 1010 11111 00111 1111 10111000101 111010111 11011101 1011001 1001001001 100101100110 1001011100 1111 111111 1011010010101 111101010 1010010 1110101111 10110011100 010111101 110111 11010101 001100 1111111 0010100101100 0101101
  • Amount of stanzas: 7
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 163
  • Average number of words per stanza: 28
  • Amount of lines: 35
  • Average number of symbols per line: 32 (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, you are repeated.

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  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
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