This is an analysis of the poem Arguing Against Kept Perceptions that begins with:
If people choose to delude themselves,
What point is made in deliberate debates......
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aba XXa abX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 3,3,3,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rondeau rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 010100101 11010010001 010011010 10101000110010 1001110001 0010101010 100011010 011010 0010101111
- Amount of stanzas: 3
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 114
- Average number of words per stanza: 19
- Amount of lines: 9
- Average number of symbols per line: 37 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 6
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 Arguing Against Kept Perceptions;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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