This is an analysis of the poem Inherited Deceptions that begins with:
People today...
Are no longer anxious to vote, ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ABCDEDfB AXXeXffddf Agecdeedb deecbfb ABCDEDXB Xhddgbbebe hbcdcXXX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,10,9,7,8,10,8,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1001 11101001 1010001 01011110 11010010 001001110 01001111010 1101111001 1001 1100011010 0101101011010 11111011 001101011010 110100101010 11010 100100100 01001001 00100101001 1001 1100010 110010100101 010001011011 111110100010 0010100010010 1101001010 001010101100 1110101101 111011010 01010001101 1010011100 100111101 111000111100 101 0011001110 1001 11101001 1010001 01011110 11010010 001001110 010011110000 1101111001 110 1010 1001111101 1101010110 0010110 1001101110 11001010101 000110111101 101000110 111010110010 101000 10011101001 110010101010 0101 1101101001 101000101101 001011101000 0010101001000
- Amount of stanzas: 7
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 307
- Average number of words per stanza: 50
- Amount of lines: 60
- Average number of symbols per line: 35 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 6
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 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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- summary of Inherited Deceptions;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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