This is an analysis of the poem A Price Is Always Paid that begins with:
Why is it people forget,
What it is they do to others......
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ABCD Xeebdab cDBF ABCDdXXcDBF
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,7,4,11,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1001001 10011010 111011 1100010 10101001 111001 11010001 0011101 00011111 10110001 0111 1 010111 111001010 00100101010 1001001 10011010 111011 1100010 101111 10111101101 1 010111 111001010 00100101010
- Amount of stanzas: 5
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 146
- Average number of words per stanza: 28
- Amount of lines: 25
- Average number of symbols per line: 28 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- 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 is repeated.
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- summary of A Price Is Always Paid;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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