This is an analysis of the poem Entertaining Hypocrisies that begins with:
Entertaining hypocrisies,
Has cost lives....
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XabccdedX XXaeXXabX X aX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 9,9,1,2,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 10101000 111 11110 1000001010 01100101 111011011 00101101 11110101 0001001010101001 10101000 1010010001 010010101010 100101011001 0100111010101 1110101 0100110100010101 111101111001 1101001101001011 110001001010001 1110 10101000010010
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 208
- Average number of words per stanza: 34
- Amount of lines: 21
- Average number of symbols per line: 39 (medium-length strings)
- 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 poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word and is repeated.
The author used the same word entertaining at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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- summary of Entertaining Hypocrisies;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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