This is an analysis of the poem Alibis Negotiated that begins with:
Those who can see,
Will....
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: AbCDEF GHIHGJ JCAKC hhigjg JCAKC GHIHGJXAbCDEF
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,6,5,6,5,13,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rondeau rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1111 0 111010 0111 110101 11010101 110011001 00101010010010 0010100101010 00100010110101010 101001011 1101001011 1101010101 0101100101 1101010101 011010110 100111 110101001001 001001101001 111010001010 11101001101 010100101110 10101011111 1101010101 0101100101 1101010101 011010110 100111 110011001 00101010010010 0010100101010 00100010110101010 101001011 1101001011 1111 0 111010 0111 110101 11010101
- Amount of stanzas: 7
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 197
- Average number of words per stanza: 34
- Amount of lines: 40
- Average number of symbols per line: 34 (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; to is repeated.
The author used the same word too at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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- summary of Alibis Negotiated;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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