This is an analysis of the poem Delusions And Their Distractions that begins with:
I can expect a stubbornness to be accepted,
By a parent experiencing a child growing up......
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aXbcabdX addeaafg ffegafXb Xddddhhc hX eXbdXaadd
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,8,8,8,2,9,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1101010000010 10100100001101 11101110 111111011 01111101 1110101 0110110101 100110010110 0111100101010 110001001101011 10110101110 1100111100 1100010110101 0101101100110 11110101010 10100110100101111 10111111 0011101110101 100100101110 110101111 10110001101010 00101110110101 0110100000100 101000110101010100 10111011101 0001010101011010 000100010100111 0100110100101 0100101011010 1111111100110111 11001111100011101 01011011100001 11101010101 111010000100110 1111010 110010100 1 010110100110 100100 1 11101001001 010101000111110 1111100110010
- Amount of stanzas: 6
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 323
- Average number of words per stanza: 58
- Amount of lines: 43
- Average number of symbols per line: 44 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 8
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; and, to, that, or are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word and is repeated.
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- summary of Delusions And Their Distractions;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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