This is an analysis of the poem Austerity that begins with:
Spending billions to win,
A position to lead over opposition......
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabXacaX XdbdXccX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,8,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: limerick
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 101001 001001101010 01011100 11001010001 0011010010 11010 1010010 11001 1110111101 10101001100 11010011100 10111110 110010001101 100100111101 11110110111 010110110011
- Amount of stanzas: 2
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 305
- Average number of words per stanza: 54
- Amount of lines: 16
- Average number of symbols per line: 37 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 7
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.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word and is repeated.
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- summary of Austerity;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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