This is an analysis of the poem Make Claims Of Your Innocence that begins with:
You can make claims of your innocence,
To others who may be convinced of it....
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abbacX abdaea bdeXXe edXcXc
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,6,6,6,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: ballad stanza
- Metre: 111101100 0101100100 011111 111100101 0101 11101 10111 1110001 00111 01010101101 101010001 11101101010 110110111 0101011110 00100110001 100111110 01100001 01011001001 01 1011001 0100101011 1010011010001 001000111100100 11101010001101
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 221
- Average number of words per stanza: 40
- Amount of lines: 24
- Average number of symbols per line: 36 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 7
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; your, you, to, with are repeated.
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- summary of Make Claims Of Your Innocence;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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