This is an analysis of the poem Empathizing With Their Grievances that begins with:
Is there anything left they have not protested?
What are they protesting NOW? ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aXab XcadbbX bb XcadeXfX ed cfgdfX ff bXcgadfX c cafabbX e XfaX b fedXX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,7,2,8,2,6,2,8,1,7,1,4,1,5,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 011011111010 1110101 1 111101111 100001 111001010 011101 1101001101 10111001010 1 10110101000 11 1011010 1 01 111001 110110111011110 1110101 10101100101 1111100010110 1010100011110 111010 10010010 11010100 110111111 10101 1100100101 11110001 0101001100 011100 0100 11010101 111110 100001100 11101000 001111001 0010010111 11101110101 001010100 1010111 111010111 110100010001 110010001 010011010 00111001111 10100110110101 1101100100 0110011010 1 111 111001 100011 111 1110011 010010 111101010 1111 101011010111000
- Amount of stanzas: 14
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 138
- Average number of words per stanza: 24
- Amount of lines: 58
- Average number of symbols per line: 33 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 6
Mood of the speaker:
The speaker asks many questions. Perhaps, he or she is in confusion.
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; they, to are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word to is repeated.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines obvious is repeated).
The literary device anadiplosis is detected in two or more neighboring lines. The word/phrase what connects the lines.
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