This is an analysis of the poem No One Wants To Admit They Have Been That Foolish that begins with:
We must stop blaming those,
Who led us to the edge of this cliff....
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abcdXXcd XXeedXd Xffcaf daX cbXbc
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,7,6,3,5,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 111101 111001001 0010100 01011 0100000100 101001110 10101000101 000001010101 111001110110 0110001101010 0111101001001 111001110 101111 10100101010 010000100001101 001110010111 001011010100 10101100010100 101011 01001010 101101111 11 111110 1101 1 10101 11 101000101001
- Amount of stanzas: 6
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 157
- Average number of words per stanza: 28
- Amount of lines: 28
- Average number of symbols per line: 33 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 6
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; to, he are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word to is repeated.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines cliff is repeated).
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- summary of No One Wants To Admit They Have Been That Foolish;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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