This is an analysis of the poem In Fear To Hear Or Face Reality that begins with:
Making choices with decisions made,
Including faith and truth that's faced......
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abc deXfe dbX cf X ab ggdbX feg XX g XX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 3,5,3,2,1,2,5,3,2,1,2,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: ballad stanza
- Metre: 101000101 01011111 10110100101 11 1100110 1011101 0010010101 0101000100111 1111 1110 1101111 11 1010 111001001101 010 01011101 1110101 010011111001 1000100111 1111010 110010111 11110 111011000010 11100010101 1001 1111100111011 11010101110101 111 1111
- Amount of stanzas: 11
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 84
- Average number of words per stanza: 16
- Amount of lines: 29
- Average number of symbols per line: 31 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 6
Mood of the speaker:
The speaker asks many questions. Perhaps, he or she is in confusion.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; to, bombarded, i are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words bombarded, we've are repeated.
The literary device anadiplosis is detected in two or more neighboring lines. The word/phrase bombarded connects the lines.
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