This is an analysis of the poem Lethal that begins with:
A feeling kept that's lethal...
Will not stay locked inside....
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: Abcc AdXbdADAdd EBEBBEEBEBBEbedADAbdeEBEBBEeaaa
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,10,31,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 0101110 011101 01010 110000100 0101110 101010001 01010101 1 101010001 1010 101010101 1010 0010101010 0101 100110101 01011 100110101 01011 1110 010111010 100110101 01011 100110101 01011 1110 010111010 101010101 1 111010001 1010 101010101 1010 001010101 01 1 101110101 01011 101110101 01011 1110 010111010 101010001 01110 11011101110 01010
- Amount of stanzas: 3
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 409
- Average number of words per stanza: 69
- Amount of lines: 45
- Average number of symbols per line: 26 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 5
Mood of the speaker:
There are many three dots in the poem. Readers should think of the author's idea together with the pensive speaker.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; people, to are repeated.
The author used the same word a at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
The literary device anadiplosis is detected in two or more neighboring lines. The word/phrase people connects the lines.
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- summary of Lethal;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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