This is an analysis of the poem Places To Hide Pretensions that begins with:
Are you trying to fit in,
To a box crumbling into pieces? ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XaXX bbccbd dcaXad
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,6,6,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1110010 0011000010 11111 0011111 10111 11110100101 100110110101 1011101001 011 11010010 10110 1101 1001010 1 1011 1
- Amount of stanzas: 3
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 138
- Average number of words per stanza: 26
- Amount of lines: 16
- Average number of symbols per line: 25 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 5
Mood of the speaker:
The speaker asks many questions. Perhaps, he or she is in confusion.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; to, you are repeated.
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- summary of Places To Hide Pretensions;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
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