This is an analysis of the poem Limitation Kills that begins with:
One day petty people will awaken,
With this in full acknowledgement......
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aXbXXaXXcdXdXefe DDCGFDBDDXDDCGFDBDD
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 16,19,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1110100010 00010100 010101101 1101 00101010010 01001011010 001100 11101110100 1001010010101101 11101010111000 0010010001001001 1001010110101 111111001 011100100110100 01 0110101101010 10101 101 11 010101 110101 10101 1010001 10101 10101 10101 101 11 010101 110101 10101 1010001 10101 10101
- Amount of stanzas: 3
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 338
- Average number of words per stanza: 54
- Amount of lines: 34
- Average number of symbols per line: 29 (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; and, to are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words and, limitation are repeated.
The author used the same word limitation 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 kills is repeated).
The poet repeated the same word kills at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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- summary of Limitation Kills;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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