This is an analysis of the poem Polluted With Deludedness that begins with:

When I turned my back...
That's when I got attention....

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: XabbXcXXdeXXcXdecXXabXX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 23,
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 11111 1111010 10101 101010 111101 0111 01101 110101000100 01011 111001 11001001000 11110001 1100101010 10110 010001 110011 11110100 1011110111 110101100100 110101101010 0101111010 1111011 1110010111
  • Amount of stanzas: 1
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 724
  • Average number of words per stanza: 127
  • Amount of lines: 23
  • Average number of symbols per line: 31 (strings are less long than medium ones)
  • Average number of words per line: 6
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; i, their are repeated.

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  • summary of Polluted With Deludedness;
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  • history of its creation;
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