This is an analysis of the poem Few And Far Between that begins with:
Preferring subservience,
Over self determination......
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abXacdedX bXcacXXdefd dddX XedffagXgb ddaXdd XX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 9,11,4,10,6,2,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 0100100 10101010 1110 0010101 1011 101010 1011 100110101 011001 10101 0101000100 0101010010 11010 10101 11101 10100111 1111001 11011010 0100010 100110010 1111011101 0110001101 1110100 00010110101 10100011 0010110100101 1000101 100110 110 1111110 1101010111 11 11 01 111011101 11111 0101101001110 01010011000 1010110100 0101011011 11110011100 111011
- Amount of stanzas: 6
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 210
- Average number of words per stanza: 34
- Amount of lines: 42
- 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:
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 literary device anadiplosis is detected in two or more neighboring lines. The word/phrase are connects the lines.
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- summary of Few And Far Between;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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