This is an analysis of the poem Blood On Their Hands that begins with:
Delusions are difficult to erase,
From minds nourished to believe......
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abbc daed aXef eegff deef ccccXaggdac
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,5,4,11,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: enclosed rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 0101100001 0110001 1101001101 11111 0101 1101010 010100101 00101001 1001100100 10110101010 11001001001 0101010110100 1011111010 11011010 11011001001 101100 1111001100 0111 1110110 10101100010 010100 1100100 001010111 10110101 011111 11 0101010 010101001010 101010 01011101101010 011001011
- Amount of stanzas: 7
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 145
- Average number of words per stanza: 24
- Amount of lines: 31
- Average number of symbols per line: 32 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 5
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 author used the same word delusions at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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- summary of Blood On Their Hands;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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