This is an analysis of the poem Personal Request that begins with:
Say that I write bad verses,
Say that I steal the silverware,...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aXbacXdaebfcebecafgccadXcgcaX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 29,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1111110 11110101 1001010 0111011111 11110 111011100 011101011 110100101 11101010 10111001010 1111110 111100100 10110110 010110 1010100010 101000100 011101010 10101010 11111001 11100010 00110010 011100110 10111010 0010101 011101010 1010101010 01100100 11010101 101010100
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 940
- Average number of words per stanza: 174
- Amount of lines: 29
- Average number of symbols per line: 31 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- 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; say, i are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words say, if are repeated.
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- summary of Personal Request;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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