This is an analysis of the poem Believing Themselves To Be 'Chosen' that begins with:
There is no place,
For kept bigotry and hatred....
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XabccaaX dXcbXdd abaaXXc aXXa
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,7,7,4,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: limerick
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1011 11100110 0100111010 10101 11101011110 0100100010 11110010 1110100 101111111 010010010 01001 11101010001 11001000001 100100111001 1011110001 1011101101 110101001 010100111010 10000100110010 010011101011 10001101000001 101010110011101 1 010010010 11 11010000111
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 244
- Average number of words per stanza: 41
- Amount of lines: 26
- Average number of symbols per line: 37 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 6
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
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 words believing, they are repeated.
The author used the same word there at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines defeated is repeated).
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