This is an analysis of the poem Disgusting To Witness that begins with:

What's more disgusting to witness,
But left to ignore or perhaps not acknowledged? ...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: ABcXacc ABddedae XcffdfXgg XXagbXdd
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 7,8,9,8,
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: shakespearean sonnet
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 11010010 110011011010 1011010100 111000010 01101011101 110100101110 00011110010010 11010010 110011011010 11010110110 1100101010 111101111 101101 0010010100101 010001 11010 100011101 0110100111 0101001111101 101011 1101010 111111010 11111010001 11101110010100 1100010100 00111101011010 110111101 100101001 1001111010010 00110100101110 1010111010 1010011011110
  • Amount of stanzas: 4
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 344
  • Average number of words per stanza: 58
  • Amount of lines: 32
  • Average number of symbols per line: 42 (strings are more long than medium ones)
  • Average number of words per line: 7
  • 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 author used the same word what's at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.

    There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines blame is repeated).

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  • summary of Disgusting To Witness;
  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
  • critical appreciation.

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