This is an analysis of the poem Expectation Of Reprisal that begins with:
Are you trying to find a way,
To save what now exists? ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XabXaXcXa defaXaafeae dfcef fcebdgeghfg XfXaXhX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 9,11,5,11,7,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: enclosed rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11100101 011101 01101 1101010100 1110100 01000101001 1110010 1010001101 0111010110 0110010 01111101 10110111 0010010 101010011 1111001100 101110 0101010 1111 0010100 11101 001111 110001 11110101 00101 11111010001 11 101 1101111 0111000010 1100111010 111010111 001011 0111 01111 111 101001 1101001 1111011 0100 111111 110 111011 00001011
- Amount of stanzas: 5
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 257
- Average number of words per stanza: 45
- Amount of lines: 43
- Average number of symbols per line: 29 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 5
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; that is repeated.
The author used the same word is at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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- summary of Expectation Of Reprisal;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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