This is an analysis of the poem Active Detractors that begins with:
Active detractors,
Are the first to become highly incensed....
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abcXb bdca XXaaaXXd aXaXd
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 5,4,8,5,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: ballad stanza
- Metre: 10010 1010011011 111010001010 11100 011000101 01010101001 00101011001 10010001001 01111101 1101111010 0001001011001 10010000010 00010011010 01111100 101000010111010 0000101011110 0100001 1110010 10010101 111010101 100100 1111101001
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 202
- Average number of words per stanza: 35
- Amount of lines: 22
- Average number of symbols per line: 36 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 6
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; be, to are repeated.
The author used the same word and at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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- summary of Active Detractors;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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