This is an analysis of the poem Lieing Through Their Teeth that begins with:
Giving up a smile or two,
Does not end a feud......
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ABCDE AFGAE HIGGADGGED ABCDEED HIGGADGGED ADGGED AFGAEED HIGGADGGEDXHIGGED
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 5,5,10,7,10,6,7,17,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: rondeau rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1010111 11101 101 100100101000 10101 1010111 111110 10110101 10101101101 1110011110 110110101 0101111 110 110 1101111 0010101 110 110 10110100 1010000 1010111 11101 101 100100101000 10101 10110100 1010000 110110101 0101111 110 110 1101111 0010101 110 110 10110100 1010000 1101111 0010101 110 110 10110100 1010000 1010111 111110 10110101 10101101101 1110011110 10110100 1010000 110110101 0101111 110 110 1101111 0010101 110 110 10110100 1010000 110110101 0101111 110 110 10110100 1010000
- Amount of stanzas: 9
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 194
- Average number of words per stanza: 37
- Amount of lines: 66
- 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:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; to, some, people are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word some is repeated.
The author used the same words giving, some 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 people, it are repeated).
The poet repeated the same word this at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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- summary of Lieing Through Their Teeth;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
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