This is an analysis of the poem Offered To Play The Role Of Victim that begins with:
There are just too many people,
Willing to stand in line......
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ABCdXeXXXd ABCXedbbce
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 10,10,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11111010 100101 00100101010 1010001 11100001010 111101011 0111101 11111101 111001011 100101 11111010 100101 00100101010 010001001 10101000101 11100101 1100110101 1101 010011001111 0110110111
- Amount of stanzas: 2
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 345
- Average number of words per stanza: 62
- Amount of lines: 20
- Average number of symbols per line: 34 (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, those, of are repeated.
The author used the same word there at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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- summary of Offered To Play The Role Of Victim;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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