This is an analysis of the poem More People Seek Insight that begins with:
An end comes as incomes dwindle,
To afford those wasteful selfish days....
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ABCdc bXebc ABCXf FCddc FCccbXFccce
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 5,5,5,5,11,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: enclosed rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11111110 001110101 111010111 010101101 0100011111 0100001011 010101010 1011101 1110011010 110001110101 11111110 001110101 111010111 1110110111 0010011111 01110100110 0111101010 1111 01001 100101101 01110100110 0111101010 101001111 1111010101101 10011110011 01110100110 110010011 11101011 1111010111101 001101100111101
- Amount of stanzas: 6
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 198
- Average number of words per stanza: 36
- Amount of lines: 30
- Average number of symbols per line: 39 (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; to is repeated.
The author used the same word it's at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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- summary of More People Seek Insight;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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