This is an analysis of the poem Maintain Your Defense that begins with:
Whatever you do,
Maintain your defense......
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ABCdefe ddXb ABCee efgfXffgf
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 7,4,5,9,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: shakespearean sonnet
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11011 01101 011101 001001 101010 010101 10100101 111110 1110111 1100101101 110110100011 11011 01101 011101 101110100 10111000110 10101 10101001 1100110 11010101 10001110010 1011011101 10111100 11110100101
- Amount of stanzas: 5
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 146
- Average number of words per stanza: 24
- Amount of lines: 24
- Average number of symbols per line: 30 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 5
Mood of the speaker:
The speaker asks many questions. Perhaps, he or she is in confusion.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and, where, that are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word where is repeated.
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- summary of Maintain Your Defense;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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