This is an analysis of the poem Developing Their Defensive Team that begins with:

Why are people quick to run,
To someone with a telling......

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: ABCD Xacd eaXXceXaa ABCDXd
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,9,6,
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 1110101 0110010 01010100 110101110 11011 10111 111010001 1010 1101101011 1101010110 00100 111111110 1010010101 10001000101101 1101001 101000100010101 11011010010001 1110101 0110010 01010100 110101110 1 011110110
  • Amount of stanzas: 4
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 191
  • Average number of words per stanza: 34
  • Amount of lines: 23
  • 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; to is repeated.

    The poet repeated the same word victims at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.

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  • summary of Developing Their Defensive Team;
  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
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