This is an analysis of the poem Getting More Difficult To Defend Within that begins with:

A culture of violence,
Is getting more difficult to defend within....

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: ABCDX AABXE Xaaee AABXE ABCDX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 5,5,5,5,5,
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 0100100 010110000101 101000100 101011010 11010101111 10111111101 101101101010 1010101101 00100111111 001101100111 10011111101 10100101011101 1010101011110100 01010101 01000101101100100 10111111101 101101101010 1010101101 00100111111 001101100111 0100100 010110000101 101000100 101011010 11010101111
  • Amount of stanzas: 5
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 216
  • Average number of words per stanza: 37
  • Amount of lines: 25
  • Average number of symbols per line: 42 (strings are more long than medium ones)
  • Average number of words per line: 7
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; their, on are repeated.

    The author used the same word people at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.

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