This is an analysis of the poem Loss Of Guidance that begins with:
Principles dismissed have sickened.
Minds unwinding from fixed disappearing values, ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abc aac XdX XXd bcdX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 3,3,3,3,4,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: enclosed rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 10001110 101001101010 10101110101 1011000101 0100110101 1100001110111 101101001 1110 101100110100 111010 1010100 001010101 11010101110 101010 1010111 0011111
- Amount of stanzas: 5
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 119
- Average number of words per stanza: 19
- Amount of lines: 16
- Average number of symbols per line: 37 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 6
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
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- summary of Loss Of Guidance;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
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