This is an analysis of the poem On A Feeding Of Wickedness that begins with:
So many people are taught,
They should not feel satisfied......
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ABCB DBBE dXfgefXd dedad Xdbfd abaae XX gfX X XXaXXeXfX XbfafXfX ABCBXDBBE
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,8,5,5,5,2,3,1,9,8,9,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1101011 1111101 011011001 001 00100110101 0100101 0110111 10101101 10000101 10000010101 1000001001 11010 11010101 1101011001 11101001111 1 1110100 01010001010 1110101010 11011 110111101 1100100100010 110100 101001011010 110110100100 0010101110100 11 010010111010 0011010011100 001010100 00100001010111 11101000110 110100100111 10 11111010101 110 111 10101101011 00101110010110 1111001110111101 0010111110101 01011000101011 0111110 10 111111111011 10 1110111 0110100101 110100101100 0111011 111001010100 11101010 1110110101 111110100 1101011 1111101 011011001 001 00100110101 0100101 0110111 10101101
- Amount of stanzas: 13
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 168
- Average number of words per stanza: 31
- Amount of lines: 62
- Average number of symbols per line: 35 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 6
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; to, whether, it, that are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words whether, you are repeated.
The author used the same word we at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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