This is an analysis of the poem More Obvious And Demean that begins with:
Who decided how we 'should' live,
Is deserved? ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abacc XdccX EebEeFGF acXfceXbff Xhhfcbihjh cXfci dXcfdeddf cchejhcXjXfX dh EbEeFGFXeejfjfd
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 5,5,8,10,10,5,9,12,2,15,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 10101111 001 10111 00010110 010100 110111 0010001011 010001 001 00101000 1100101 10010101 1 10001010101 0011 11 1111101010 01 10101111 0010101001001 010 01001011 0011010101 11110 1111110 10101001 0010010011 01010100 1 1101 10001 0010010010 01011 1 11100 11111001100 01010100001010001 10 10110100 10010001 111 01 1110 111 010101000 0100111001 1010110001010 001 110 00101 11001111010101 01 1101010001 1010000100101 0010101 10101 101 10101 1010110001 11010111 011 1011000111 11010110 100011101100 1010100111 00110100100 1100101 1 10001010101 001001 11 1111101010 01 1110110101 1 101 1101 010101 0101010101 11010010111
- Amount of stanzas: 11
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 200
- Average number of words per stanza: 34
- Amount of lines: 80
- Average number of symbols per line: 27 (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.
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; and, to, it, comes are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words more, it are repeated.
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- summary of More Obvious And Demean;
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- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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