This is an analysis of the poem Being Innocent For Their Belligerent Behavior that begins with:
Parents and legal guardians,
Quick to make excuses......
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabcbdXXXeb fagaefd fcggXag
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 11,7,7,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: shakespearean sonnet
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 10110100 101010 111010100 10100101 101100100110 0010011 0010111 110100110100010 1011011101000 01011001001 0100001011101010 1 100010011 0010100001101 1010010010 11010101101001 011101010010101 010100101100101 1 10001010010100 01110100100 100111 1011111101111 11011011101 1010101010111010
- Amount of stanzas: 3
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 348
- Average number of words per stanza: 56
- Amount of lines: 25
- Average number of symbols per line: 41 (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; their, to are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word why is repeated.
The author used the same word why at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
The literary device anadiplosis is detected in two or more neighboring lines. The word/phrase why connects the lines.
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- summary of Being Innocent For Their Belligerent Behavior;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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