This is an analysis of the poem Bitter Is The Taste Left On Tongues that begins with:
Had he not destroyed the lives,
Of millions of people......
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abacac dae afaea caaXXXXgg faeXgbd da adeXcbcb
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,3,5,9,7,2,8,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: enclosed rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1110101 010010 00111 1100010100 10111 111110101 110101111010 1110011 110100 11010001 0101010010100 11010110010 010001 00010010001 0010101110 01010 110010100 111101 001010 1010111110 01101 0101011001 00101 101011100100 0101011110 1110101010101 010111000110111 100100001 10101010111 0100111 10010 110101010 110001111 1100101001 11010 111 110110 01010011 1001 1001
- Amount of stanzas: 7
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 186
- Average number of words per stanza: 33
- Amount of lines: 40
- Average number of symbols per line: 32 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 6
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; of, he, to are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word with is repeated.
The author used the same word he at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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