This is an analysis of the poem Proclaiming Preferences that begins with:
Feeling a bit threatened,
By those proclaiming preferences? ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abaacdc aaX debcff fcgcbf bcechX iXiacfbhX hX ijfcjif fX gbk X keXhXada X
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 7,3,6,6,6,9,2,7,2,3,1,8,1,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 100110 110101000 100101010 1110010 0100100101 1010 1100 1111010 11101 11 101111 0110100 0100011000 11010101 111011001 11010101 0110111000001 011000101110 101101110011 1001101 0101001001 011110111 111101000 0111111010 1101111010 110100 01111111010 10111110 101 10110 11001 0111010 0100101 10001 110100 11110 1010100 1010 1110 11011 11101000 1011001 11010 1111101000 010100100 101100001011 10011 111 11 110000 11101110 111101 111111110 110 10 1111101110 01000 1 1010 1110010101 11110011
- Amount of stanzas: 13
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 135
- Average number of words per stanza: 23
- Amount of lines: 61
- Average number of symbols per line: 28 (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.
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; with, i, and, to are repeated.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines picked is repeated).
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- summary of Proclaiming Preferences;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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