This is an analysis of the poem A Commitment To Uselessness that begins with:
When people become too afraid,
To express their own identities......
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abXaccdbbX debXfafcfc X gc X gdfe XXc
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 10,10,1,2,1,4,3,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: enclosed rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11001101 001110100 001001111 1100100010 1110111001 1011001 010010010 001001101 1010100010010 1001001001000 111011011101 110100010 101010101 101001001110 10110001001111 11110101 10100100001011011 110011011 01101001 01001100001101 11010 010 010011 111110 11010 10100101010 111010010010001 0110 1110111 110101011
- Amount of stanzas: 8
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 138
- Average number of words per stanza: 24
- Amount of lines: 30
- Average number of symbols per line: 36 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 6
Mood of the speaker:
There are many three dots in the poem. Readers should think of the author's idea together with the pensive speaker.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; to, and, leader are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word a is repeated.
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- summary of A Commitment To Uselessness;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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