This is an analysis of the poem Paying The Price that begins with:
If for no other reason they exist,
Those who have chosen to self destruct......
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabca deffdX dgXdgXe dcdaXhX bhddi iXi
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 5,6,7,7,5,3,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 0111010101 111100101 110100100 00101001 001101000 1110001 1011001010101 0111111010 110010111001 001110 101111011 100101010 01010001 110010110 111101000 010101010101 01001111010 1110001010111 101011111 0110101111 0111110100101 101001001000 11011010010 1001101 0010011 1100 1111 10111 111011101 10101001 11111101101 1001010 111010010
- Amount of stanzas: 6
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 201
- Average number of words per stanza: 37
- Amount of lines: 33
- Average number of symbols per line: 36 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 7
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; no, they are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word this is 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 Paying The Price;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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