This is an analysis of the poem Freed Of Most Addictions that begins with:

My time will not be wasted,
By a dispersing attempted through your rhetoric....

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: ABCD efXef ABCDXbd
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,5,7,
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: couplets
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: rondeau
  • Metre: 1101010 1001001011100 11110100 00010100 1110101010 1110101000101 11101100100111 11110110 10100101011 1101010 1001001011100 11110100 00010100 110011011 010101010110
  • Amount of stanzas: 4
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 145
  • Average number of words per stanza: 27
  • Amount of lines: 15
  • Average number of symbols per line: 38 (medium-length strings)
  • Average number of words per line: 7
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

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  • summary of Freed Of Most Addictions;
  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
  • critical appreciation.

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