This is an analysis of the poem It Is The Culture That Feeds, Permits And Defines that begins with:
To lay blame on another,
Is part of the culture....
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabcX Xdeb XcXcc becee cXdbcbcX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 5,4,5,5,8,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 0111010 010010 10100111 1011110 0010101011 111101 101001010 111101111 1110100 0101101110 001101010101 011011001010 111001010101011 1000010100100101 0001011010101 000101011010101 00010100111100100 1010100110010 1101001011010001 000101101101 101 10001010100101 001110100110111 010001001110110 1101110101001 011111001011010 1010010010100
- Amount of stanzas: 5
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 240
- Average number of words per stanza: 44
- Amount of lines: 27
- Average number of symbols per line: 44 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 8
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; not, that, it, culture, and are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words to, it are repeated.
The author used the same word it at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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