This is an analysis of the poem You Have Answered Your Own Question that begins with:
How can a people be awakened,
Who refuse to listen or pay attention....
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XaaX XXX aX XXX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,3,2,3,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 110100010 10101011010 11101 0100100100 101111000100 101 1001011011 00101011010 011101011 1 0101 11101110
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 91
- Average number of words per stanza: 17
- Amount of lines: 12
- Average number of symbols per line: 30 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 6
Mood of the speaker:
The speaker asks many questions. Perhaps, he or she is in confusion.
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- summary of You Have Answered Your Own Question;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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