This is an analysis of the poem Irresponsibility that begins with:
Irresponsibility makes it okay to trash the streets.
And leave them that way until someone or 'they'...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aXbXc dcdX cbXc eceacbX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 5,4,4,7,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 001010010110101 11011011111 111010 00101 010011 00101001011001100 110100100100 1100111001 010010 00101001011001101 110101001000101 010100001111 11110101111 10110001010101001010 110100001011 100010 010110100101 1101 1001111 1100100110001
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 203
- Average number of words per stanza: 32
- Amount of lines: 20
- Average number of symbols per line: 40 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 6
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and is repeated.
The author used the same word irresponsibility at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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- summary of Irresponsibility;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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