This is an analysis of the poem It Is Disgusting How Our Standards Are Being Degraded that begins with:
Why didn't witnesses stop a gang rape?
Why are there shootings on our streets? ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abXXcXdefe aXXbcedc fX gg
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 10,8,2,2,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: shakespearean sonnet
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1101001011 11110111 1111010110101 101100110 1001101 11001110 1100100011 11010111010 110011111110 01011010111 111100101011 1010110010111011001 1 10101010100100101 1111111 1111110 1000101110110010 000 111 110011 11101010100 10001010000100
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 207
- Average number of words per stanza: 36
- Amount of lines: 22
- Average number of symbols per line: 37 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 7
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; why, there, and are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word why is repeated.
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