This is an analysis of the poem A Skittish Dependency that begins with:
A skittish dependency on low self-esteem,
One keeps to select a kept insecurity protected......
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XabbbXbc bccXadadX XX bcaec fXX dd bX beab XXXaXaXX c cfcX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,9,2,5,3,2,2,4,8,1,4,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 010010011101 110010110100010 00101010101 11111101011 010010101 0010100010001110 0010011011 0100100111 10100110100 11110011100 01000111010010 11110110001 111010001100 110010010010 111101100 010101101 111101000 1111 11111010101 11111 111011100 1101101 1111 0111011101011 1110101 01101 01101001100 0100 10100 111010 011101110 11001 1010111 01101011001 10101001011 1 111101 0101100 1 01001 10011 1011100 010010100011000 10 101001100 11 011111010110 011100111
- Amount of stanzas: 11
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 153
- Average number of words per stanza: 26
- Amount of lines: 48
- Average number of symbols per line: 34 (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 is repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words they, the are repeated.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines entitlements is repeated).
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- summary of A Skittish Dependency;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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