This is an analysis of the poem May Initially Hurt From The Dirt Dispersed that begins with:

Once a mistreatment
Of trust has been discovered done...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: abAcde eaAfaa GgGbahfX ahaffacXaeXXdX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,6,8,14,
  • Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: couplets
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 10010 01100101 10 101000101 011000111 011101001001 01001000100010 01011011 10 111110 101111 101010010101 0100101010 10100101000100 0100101010 0011001110 001001 11100 1101001100110 0010 010101 1101101 01 101001011 0111011 10100100101 10100010101 011010100 110000101011 10101011 010101 01010 1010101010001 001000101101
  • Amount of stanzas: 4
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 273
  • Average number of words per stanza: 47
  • Amount of lines: 34
  • Average number of symbols per line: 31 (strings are less long than medium ones)
  • Average number of words per line: 6
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; from is repeated.

    The author used the same word apologies at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.

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  • summary of May Initially Hurt From The Dirt Dispersed;
  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
  • critical appreciation.

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