This is an analysis of the poem On A Regular And Daily Basis that begins with:

A people taught to live in acceptance,
Of being oppressed and neglected......

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: abaXcbc dXXbefXfXaceadbac
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 7,17,
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: rima
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 0101010010 010011010 10101001000100 1100100010 1001100 0001101010 001000010010 1010010101 01011011001 1101101011 0010110001010 1101010010011 001100001010010100 01001001101 0010000101010100 1110001010100 101011010 001110101 001001111 1110100010 0011010000100100110 1010111010011010 111100110100011
  • Amount of stanzas: 3
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 343
  • Average number of words per stanza: 60
  • Amount of lines: 23
  • Average number of symbols per line: 44 (strings are more long than medium ones)
  • Average number of words per line: 8
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; to, with are repeated.

    The author used the same word and at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.

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  • summary of On A Regular And Daily Basis;
  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
  • critical appreciation.

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