This is an analysis of the poem More Conducive that begins with:

What are you doing?
'Watching people disgrace and destroy themselves.'...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: X X X abcaXdddX eff XX X gXb X hgcahic X hiaeaj X jb XXed
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 1,1,1,9,3,2,1,3,1,7,1,6,1,2,4,
  • Closest metre: iambic trimeter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 11110 101001101100 11 1101010 11010001 00101001001 001001001 10101011001 11101100 110011 1000101 1010001111 1 1010100 11010100 11101 0101110100 110 1101000100 11010111 0010101 1111 01100 11100110 01010110 011101 11 11111101 00101011001 110 11 11101010 001001101 111101 1001101101 111001011 1111101 1 10100111111 110101101 110010 11010111
  • Amount of stanzas: 16
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 75
  • Average number of words per stanza: 14
  • Amount of lines: 42
  • Average number of symbols per line: 28 (strings are less long than medium ones)
  • Average number of words per line: 5
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

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

    The author used the same word 'that's 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 ' is repeated).

    The poet repeated the same word ' at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.

If you write a school or university poetry essay, you should Include in your explanation of the poem:

  • summary of More Conducive;
  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
  • critical appreciation.

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