This is an analysis of the poem Deficiencies They Keep To Protect that begins with:
Too often she has chosen to lie,
At the expense of others....
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: Xabccac aaXdcbc Bdad BddaXc
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 7,7,4,6,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 110111001 1001010 110100010 01010011001 111101 100100 11 11011010 1110010 011100101 110010 0011101011 010000100110 1101011111 111011010 110111001 11100 0111001101 111011010 111101 0100011010 101001 11110111 010011001
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 197
- Average number of words per stanza: 35
- Amount of lines: 24
- Average number of symbols per line: 32 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 6
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; she, they are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word they is repeated.
The author used the same words too, they at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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- summary of Deficiencies They Keep To Protect;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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