This is an analysis of the poem Even Today The Incompetent Deny It that begins with:
What will you say to those,
Who were unafraid....
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ABCB abba Xaa bdbX ABCB eaXbeede
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,3,4,4,8,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: rondeau rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 101101 10101 01011101 011101 101000111 00010101 10111010 101110001 100100100010 110011010 001110 10010101 0011010 1001101 0101110 101101 10101 01011101 011101 1011 11101 011 0101 10111 0011 1111 01111
- Amount of stanzas: 6
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 124
- Average number of words per stanza: 23
- Amount of lines: 27
- Average number of symbols per line: 27 (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; to is repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word the is repeated.
The author used the same words what, even at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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- summary of Even Today The Incompetent Deny It;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
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