This is an analysis of the poem Examine The Dwindling Of Your Whims that begins with:
Listen to them...
Self described conservatives....
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ABbbbcd ABdeXbXecc Xc
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 7,10,2,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1000 1010100 010010101010 10010010 01001010010 1100001 1000011010 1000 1010100 101100 01000100 0101010101 110100100011 10100110 01001001 1110010 111101010 1111 1100010
- Amount of stanzas: 3
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 190
- Average number of words per stanza: 27
- Amount of lines: 19
- Average number of symbols per line: 29 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 4
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.
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