This is an analysis of the poem Paying The Consequences that begins with:
Acting...
That's all it is....
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aBCB dEdfEggfEbXdHDHb EbXEXbhEgXgIHDIHbXaBCB
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,16,22,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 10 1100 10101 110001 110 111 0110010 10100101 111 11001 01001 010111101 111 11010000101 01010 110 1010 11101100100110 1010 001001001010 111 11101010110 1001101010 111 010110001100100 1001001010 000101010101 111 010110010101 10101100 1111 11 1010 11101100100110 11 1010 0010101010 10 1100 10101 110001
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 264
- Average number of words per stanza: 46
- Amount of lines: 41
- Average number of symbols per line: 25 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 4
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 is repeated.
The poet repeated the same word consequences at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
If you write a school or university poetry essay, you should Include in your explanation of the poem:
- summary of Paying The Consequences;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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