This is an analysis of the poem Bogus Doses that begins with:

Your rolling overexposed bogus doses aren't deep.
To keep them away from a 'vision'....

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: AXAX XbXAXX AX CXDDX XXDXX DDXEXd CXDDDXEEEbXEEEb
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,6,2,5,5,6,15,
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 11010011010101 010010010 11010011010101 010010010 11001001 1101001101001 01101010100 11010011010101 110101 010 11010011010101 010010010 110111 1011101 001000011101011 1110 11011101010 1101011010 11001000101 1110 11011101010 11011101010 1110 1110 11011101010 111010 1011101010 101010 110111 1011101 001000011101011 1110 1110 11011101010 1111010 111010 1111010 0101 1111010 111010 1111010 01
  • Amount of stanzas: 8
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 178
  • Average number of words per stanza: 32
  • Amount of lines: 42
  • Average number of symbols per line: 33 (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; have, take, your, bogus, doses are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words and, swish are repeated.

    There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines 'vision', it, doses are repeated).

    The poet repeated the same word 'vision' at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.

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  • summary of Bogus Doses;
  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
  • critical appreciation.

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