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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  • summary of It Is Disgusting How Our Standards Are Being Degraded;
  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
  • critical appreciation.

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