This is an analysis of the poem Our Ability To Avoid Reality that begins with:

What is happening to our youth today?
A reflection of our ability to avoid reality....

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: XXaaXX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 1010001101 00100101000010100 0010110101010 101111100101000101 001010010100 11010111010101
  • Amount of stanzas: 1
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 285
  • Average number of words per stanza: 47
  • Amount of lines: 6
  • Average number of symbols per line: 47 (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, our are repeated.

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  • summary of Our Ability To Avoid Reality;
  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
  • critical appreciation.

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