This is an analysis of the poem Keep It Fed With Lies that begins with:
How to poison a mind?
Keep it fed with lies....
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: AB CABBB AB CAXaBBBB
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 2,5,2,8,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: limerick
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 101001 10101 10101101 1101100101 10101 10101 10101 101001 10101 10101101 1101100101 001 010011001 10101 10101 10101 10101
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 110
- Average number of words per stanza: 23
- Amount of lines: 17
- Average number of symbols per line: 25 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 5
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; keep, it, fed, with, lies are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word keep is repeated.
The author used the same word how at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines lies is repeated).
The poet repeated the same word lies at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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