This is an analysis of the poem Persistent With Their Contradictions that begins with:
Those persistent with their contradictions,
Should not be labelled or considered hypocrites! ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aXXbcXdbbe XcabaeaXbd
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 10,10,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: limerick
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1010011010 110101010101 1 1101110100101 001010100 0111001000101010 001011001001010 101000110101 101010110001 00100001010 10100010011000 1100010101110100 111010010010010 1101010010101 10100111111011 0001011010 1100111 110001111010010 00111110001 01001110101010
- Amount of stanzas: 2
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 473
- Average number of words per stanza: 77
- Amount of lines: 20
- Average number of symbols per line: 46 (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, of are repeated.
The author used the same word those at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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