This is an analysis of the poem Defense Mechanisms that begins with:
How can anyone state to have faith,
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Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XabXXacaXadefagga faXadadfabadceXadgdade
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 17,22,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: shakespearean sonnet
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 111001011 011000101 110010 01011010 01011001000 0100110 1010101 011110 001010111 11111010 1101010 11 10110000101 01010 1011110 01111 111 11 11111 11101 1010110 100011 01011010 1101 0101010001 0010010 010001010 110101001 11011 01101 1100111 1101101001 11 011000101 110100100 1000010 011010111 1 0101101111
- Amount of stanzas: 2
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 542
- Average number of words per stanza: 85
- Amount of lines: 39
- Average number of symbols per line: 27 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 4
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, be are repeated.
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- summary of Defense Mechanisms;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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