This is an analysis of the poem In The Land Of Make Believe that begins with:
After lining their pockets with wealth and rhetoric,
It becomes difficult for one to perceive......
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ABCDEFB BGH BCF ABCDEFB BGHXBCF
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 7,3,3,7,7,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rondeau rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1010110011100 00110011001 1010010101010 101001011100110 001001 101001010100110001 11101001101 0010101 101111010 1010101 0010101 01010101 0111001 1010110011100 00110011001 1010010101010 101001011100110 001001 101001010100110001 11101001101 0010101 101111010 1010101 0010101 01010101 0111001
- Amount of stanzas: 6
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 170
- Average number of words per stanza: 29
- Amount of lines: 26
- Average number of symbols per line: 38 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 7
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, of are repeated.
The author used the same word in at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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- summary of In The Land Of Make Believe;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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