This is an analysis of the poem Permanently Scarred that begins with:
Why is it with ease but difficult to believe...
For those who intentionally, ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XXaXbcdbbd dbadXe eXeefeX aadfdedde X dab XXce
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 10,6,7,9,1,3,4,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 100011100001 11101000 11101010 00100101110 00100010101 001101110100 010111010001 1101001010 0010110111 010110101010 11111000101 0100101010010 111010010110 10010 1101101111 110100 1001111100001 0110100001101 0101111001 1100011111 11011010101 001001110010001 111010101 100101101 01 100110001 1010010 101010000011 10110101000101 10011111 11011001 110000100100100010 110111110101 1100010100010 1 11 1111 101111 110100100111
- Amount of stanzas: 8
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 195
- Average number of words per stanza: 34
- Amount of lines: 39
- Average number of symbols per line: 39 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 7
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, and, it are repeated.
The author used the same word who at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
The literary device anadiplosis is detected in two or more neighboring lines. The word/phrase lessons connects the lines.
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- summary of Permanently Scarred;
- central theme;
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