This is an analysis of the poem Suicide Of A Moderate Dictator that begins with:

This is a day when truths will out, perhaps;
leak from the dangling telephone earphones...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: abXbabbaaa ccddbeaeb XXXdeXea
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 10,9,8,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: couplets
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: heroic couplets
  • Metre: 0001110101 10010010111 10011101 1001010101 0110010010 010011111110 1100111110 10010010101 0101011111 1100111111 01011111 110011111 11010101 01010011 01101101110 111101001 0111011101 11110101001 100011001010 0001110011 11111100111 01101010101 11000010111 1011110001 010101101010 110111001010 1111010101
  • Amount of stanzas: 3
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 384
  • Average number of words per stanza: 66
  • Amount of lines: 27
  • Average number of symbols per line: 42 (strings are more long than medium ones)
  • 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; from is repeated.

    There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines work is repeated).

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  • summary of Suicide Of A Moderate Dictator;
  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
  • critical appreciation.

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