This is an analysis of the poem Cruel To One Another that begins with:
We are cruel to one another.
For reasons that keep us fools....
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aBcd XXeddX afbXXgXggfgdXXfeaBcbfgfddd
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,6,26,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 111001010 1101111 111010 1110001 101011 001111 1011 1101010 010010 10010111 10010 001000100 101111001 10110 010111 11010001010 101101 010101 10010110001 11 01 001011101 010111 1 11 1001010 1101111 1110101110001 0100010 101001100010 110001 100001 1010011 101001 1010100101
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 235
- Average number of words per stanza: 43
- Amount of lines: 35
- Average number of symbols per line: 26 (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; we, to are repeated.
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- summary of Cruel To One Another;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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