This is an analysis of the poem Backstabbing With Gladness that begins with:
What values do you have,
Would you bet your life on? ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abcdeeXX aXcddXdccbb
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,11,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 110111 111111 10111 1001010001 11001 111111 11111 11111 101111 01100010 1011 11111 101101 101101 101001 0100111 1111101 1111011 110001101
- Amount of stanzas: 2
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 256
- Average number of words per stanza: 47
- Amount of lines: 19
- Average number of symbols per line: 26 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 5
Mood of the speaker:
There are many exclamation marks in the poem. The speaker is excited. He or she has strong feelings on the subject that is described in the poem.
The speaker asks many questions. Perhaps, he or she is in confusion.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; you is repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word what is repeated.
The author used the same word what at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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- summary of Backstabbing With Gladness;
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- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
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