This is an analysis of the poem An Act Of Slow Suicide that begins with:
Eliminating those to know,
Who have made it known......
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abcbaaded fbdbe ggcggfXggcXXg
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 9,5,13,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 01010101 11101 111000110 10001101010 111 10101 10100001 10011010 01101101 01010 11100010 011010110 11010101 10101000100 010001 011010100 111 11 10 110011 0110 00101011 10100010 01010111 1100 10101 01100011
- Amount of stanzas: 3
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 235
- Average number of words per stanza: 42
- Amount of lines: 27
- Average number of symbols per line: 25 (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.
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- summary of An Act Of Slow Suicide;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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