This is an analysis of the poem After Blood Has Flowed that begins with:
I am not going to defend ignorance,
Of any kind....
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ABCBAA bbdaad EFAB bbbagagdd dEFABe ABCBAAgbdXaX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,6,4,9,6,12,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11110001100 0101 1101 01001 101000100 0001010100 11110001 0101001 10110100 01010 11000100100 1010101000101 10010110001 10010 11100010100 110010110001 111011010 0101010111 1100101010 10100101 101101 110010 01001100010 111101 0100101 1 10010110001 10010 11100010100 110010110001 1101000010001001 11110001100 0101 1101 01001 101000100 0001010100 01010101 1010011001 110101 1011110111 10 000101
- Amount of stanzas: 6
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 230
- Average number of words per stanza: 37
- Amount of lines: 43
- Average number of symbols per line: 31 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 5
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 author used the same word i at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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- summary of After Blood Has Flowed;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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