This is an analysis of the poem Decoyed Ducks that begins with:
Camouflaged and taught,
Not to quack or waddle....
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ABCADEfgXfefahXfX ABCADEXaXffaa gXahh
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 17,13,5,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 10111 101110 110010 00101 11001 11001 1110011 10010 1110000 100101010 111001 01011010 1010111 1001111 10100110 11010010110 101010001 10111 101110 110010 00101 11001 11001 1101010011000 111 111001000 1100110011010 10100101110100 1101010110101 10001011101 11100100011 101001001001 0101101 011001 101011010001
- Amount of stanzas: 3
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 367
- Average number of words per stanza: 62
- Amount of lines: 35
- Average number of symbols per line: 31 (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 is repeated.
The author used the same word camouflaged at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
If you write a school or university poetry essay, you should Include in your explanation of the poem:
- summary of Decoyed Ducks;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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