This is an analysis of the poem Dishonesty Is Given To Get And Taken that begins with:
Too many are dishonest.
And living amongst themselves with it....
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: AabaX AacdX Aecfefgb fgada dbAHE bAHE gXbAHE
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 5,5,8,5,5,4,6,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1101010 110010100 001000100 10100011001 01011010011100 1101010 1010111 11011110 100101 111101 1101010 100101101 11101110 01010010100 01 101010 00100100010 1010100100 11010010 1001001110101 1001001101 0110101 100011111 1 0100 01001 110 001 1100 01001 110 001 001001001 0100 01001 110 001
- Amount of stanzas: 7
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 139
- Average number of words per stanza: 22
- Amount of lines: 38
- Average number of symbols per line: 25 (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; and, to are repeated.
The author used the same word too at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
The poet repeated the same word receive at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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