This is an analysis of the poem At The Expense Of Decency that begins with:
How do I feel,
About those who sleep around......
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XabbccXdXc XeXbbcdX X adbXcdce
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 10,8,1,8,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1111 0111101 01110 111110 001001 11110 1111100010 000100101 0001001 1110100 10 11 10 10 0101 10100 0111111 10010100 1110101 10101010 111001001 0101010011 110011 10010100 10111 1011010001001 1101011010
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 185
- Average number of words per stanza: 29
- Amount of lines: 27
- Average number of symbols per line: 27 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 4
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.
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- summary of At The Expense Of Decency;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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