This is an analysis of the poem Deception And Its Relatives that begins with:
One's inability,
To face the truth......
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ABCACD ebXfgg hgggfX ABCACD fddghd ghefXb XaahXh
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,6,6,6,6,6,6,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 110100 0101 1100010 010100 001010 00110110 0100010 111 1000100 111 11101 1100010 1100110 001000 10101 0111001 100110010 10001101 110100 0101 1100010 010100 001010 00110110 101101 10110101001 01110001101 110001 10101 1101001010001 1111101 0010001111 1010 1001001 11 100101000101 111 1111100 10101010010101100 101010100 110101010 1001000110
- Amount of stanzas: 7
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 166
- Average number of words per stanza: 27
- Amount of lines: 42
- Average number of symbols per line: 27 (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; to, and are repeated.
The author used the same word and at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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- summary of Deception And Its Relatives;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
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More information about poems by Lawrence S. Pertillar
- Analysis of Confronting Delusions
- Analysis of Where Do You Go?
- Analysis of As If To Digest In The Darkness
