This is an analysis of the poem Lazy Spreading Cracks that begins with:
Incredible as it is,
Those who have time to sit and smear others......
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aaX bba XcXc baXaa
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 3,3,4,5,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rondeau rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: rondeau
- Metre: 0100100 1111011110 1011111110010 11101111101100 101001010 01111111111101 110111000 111001001010 11110110101101 11011010111010110 10011111 1010001 101 11011010 00101010111110
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 163
- Average number of words per stanza: 30
- Amount of lines: 15
- Average number of symbols per line: 43 (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; have, they, to are repeated.
The author used the same word and at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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- summary of Lazy Spreading Cracks;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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