This is an analysis of the poem Endorsed Remorse that begins with:
He was not shooting at the people.
He was shooting at the world....
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ABCDA ecXdac ABCDA bcdcc cdXcd ABCDA ecffeXf fABCDA eXgcb X Xgc X ehfch
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 5,6,5,5,5,5,7,6,5,1,3,1,5,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: enclosed rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 111101010 1110101 110100010 010010010 101001 1101111010 10001011011 1101011111 00111010 10111 00110100 111101010 1110101 110100010 010010010 101001 1010011 0101011100 00100010 11110100 1111111101 100100100 0100101001 110100101 1001 1101010001 111101010 1110101 110100010 010010010 101001 101000101100 01000101 1110001011 00110100 00111001 000100110100 01001010101 1 111101010 1110101 110100010 010010010 101001 1110101 0010100 001001 10101 0100011001 11 101100 110011 1010001 10101 101010 1101 1101011 1111010 1101011
- Amount of stanzas: 13
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 141
- Average number of words per stanza: 24
- Amount of lines: 59
- Average number of symbols per line: 30 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 5
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; he, shooting, with are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words he, with, they are repeated.
The author used the same word and at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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- summary of Endorsed Remorse;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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