This is an analysis of the poem But...What About The Facts? that begins with:
What is more tragic?
The keeping of denials defended....
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XabaXaX XcdabaX aa dX cXcX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 7,7,2,2,4,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 10110 0100010010 10010100 010010001001 10100111101100 1001001000010 101010010 1 1 10101 11110110 00100100 100101 001001111 1110001 1001110101 11 11001111 0101101 1100101 11 001001111001
- Amount of stanzas: 5
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 129
- Average number of words per stanza: 24
- Amount of lines: 22
- Average number of symbols per line: 29 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- 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; to is repeated.
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- summary of But...What About The Facts?;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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