This is an analysis of the poem Obedient To Subservience that begins with:
Obedient to subservience,
Was not intended for all to experience......
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: AABcb dcXcd AABbb AXXX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 5,5,5,4,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: heroic couplets
- Metre: 010000100 110101100100 0010010010101 0010001010010001 111110100 1101 0111001001101 1010011101 01 10001001 010000100 110101100100 0010010010101 111010001001 10101011010101 010000100 110100101110 011010100 1010010111101
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 185
- Average number of words per stanza: 28
- Amount of lines: 19
- Average number of symbols per line: 38 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 6
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 obedient at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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- summary of Obedient To Subservience;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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