This is an analysis of the poem A Brief For The Defense that begins with:
Sorrow everywhere. Slaughter everywhere. If babies
are not starving someplace, they are starving...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abacddeecfgXXeegXcfXeXbXddbdXX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 30,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1010110101010 1110111110 111010110 110111011111 1010100110111 01110101011 01010100010110 101011001001 010011110100 0110101101110 001001011010 10010010010110 101010010001 010111000111010 1100010011010 111011110110 11011010111 01000011100010 1000101010010 1001010001010 001010001111 11111011101 11011001001101 11101010011 1011100101 10100010100101 011011110110 010110100101011 110111110101 1000101101
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 1465
- Average number of words per stanza: 258
- Amount of lines: 30
- Average number of symbols per line: 48 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 9
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; in, we, to are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words be, in, we are repeated.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines not is repeated).
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- summary of A Brief For The Defense;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
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