This is an analysis of the poem Concrete As Your Convictions that begins with:
The truth of the matter is this...
Your beliefs, ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabc badX eeedX cecbX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,5,5,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 01001000 101 110110 11010 10111 01001101 100101 10011110 0111000101 010101010 010101 1011010111 01010010011 110110101 1010101 11011101 00100 1111101111
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 138
- Average number of words per stanza: 24
- Amount of lines: 18
- Average number of symbols per line: 30 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- 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; your is repeated.
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- summary of Concrete As Your Convictions;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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