This is an analysis of the poem Fixing The Shame that begins with:

They put him in jail for the thing he'd done,
For that was the law they'd made; ...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: XabacdeX fbbbXaba bfafXgcg dafacfaX ebgXbece
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,8,8,8,8,
  • Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: limerick
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 1110110111 11101101 110110111 0100111 1011111101 1100111 111110111 1100101 1000110111 010101 1010110101 0100101 101011111 1100111 110101111 11110101 1010100111 1100111 1111100101 1100101 110110110 1101101 101011101 0101101 11111101 10101101 1010110101 0111101 1010010101 10111001 101110101 1100111 0100110101 110111 001011111 1000101 1110110111 1111101 101010111 0101001
  • Amount of stanzas: 5
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 292
  • Average number of words per stanza: 58
  • Amount of lines: 40
  • Average number of symbols per line: 36 (medium-length strings)
  • Average number of words per line: 7
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and, of, to, he are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word and is repeated.

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  • summary of Fixing The Shame;
  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
  • critical appreciation.

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