This is an analysis of the poem Mouths Are Opened Wider that begins with:
Undermining to underestimate,
The abilities and skills......
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abXbbacdcecfegfbb aaaXaXgc deaXadbhcggb eefaXbXcXhbX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 17,8,12,12,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: enclosed rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1010010100 0010011 01100100100 110100 010010011 011111 010101 010111110 101011110 10111 010100 10111010 00110011 101001011 0111010 0010011010 11111001 0100101 1001 01011000101 0100010 01101101 1001011 01101101 0110010110 110 11011101 11101 101110000 11 11111010 111111 0110001010 101010001 100010101 101110 0010011010 1001 11 111110 0101011 10010101 11010 1101010 0101101 1 110011 0100110 111111000
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 354
- Average number of words per stanza: 60
- Amount of lines: 49
- 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:
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, you are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word a is repeated.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines you is repeated).
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- summary of Mouths Are Opened Wider;
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