This is an analysis of the poem An Acceptable Way Of Life that begins with:
Even though there are thieves and deceivers,
And everything imagined corruptable and crooked......
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XaXbXaaX aXacc aaaaXabX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,5,8,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: limerick
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1011111100 1101010100110 011111000 0001111011 0000111010010 111010 1111101010 001010001 11010110110 1010110010100101 01001101 0101010 0001001110 010011110010 0100111111011 111000101011100 010111010 111011111 10100111001110 101010100 111110
- Amount of stanzas: 3
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 298
- Average number of words per stanza: 50
- Amount of lines: 21
- Average number of symbols per line: 42 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 7
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and, those, to are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word we is repeated.
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- summary of An Acceptable Way Of Life;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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