This is an analysis of the poem One To Linger And Believe that begins with:

People are labelling acts of treason,
As an economic season....

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: aabXb XXccb Xbddd
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 5,5,5,
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: couplets
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: rondeau
  • Metre: 1011001010 11101010 010001 001000101 100101 11010100100 01001001 110001 110100010 1010101 1010000100 010100101101 010100 10100 1001001
  • Amount of stanzas: 3
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 152
  • Average number of words per stanza: 27
  • Amount of lines: 15
  • Average number of symbols per line: 30 (strings are less long than medium ones)
  • Average number of words per line: 5
  • 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; of is repeated.

    There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines is is repeated).

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  • summary of One To Linger And Believe;
  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
  • critical appreciation.

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