This is an analysis of the poem Promoted As It Spreads that begins with:
What continues to fail,
Are those accusations made....
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XaaXbXa bbcadbe bacedcaf gBCBHBCB gBCBFBCB gBbGB gBCBFBCB gBCBHBCBXgBbGB
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 7,7,8,8,8,5,8,14,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: rondeau rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 101001 1110101 110111000010 11010101 10100100100001 01111 0011010011 11111 0001001110 00010100101010 11011010 110101001001 010101011010101 111110100100 0110011010101 0010100111101 0101001010 000100001 1011001 1101010000010101101 10100000011001010 1011010110101100 10 010101 01011 010101 101010100 010101 11000101 010101 10 010101 0101011 010101 11010100 010101 11000101 010101 10 010101 0 110 001101 10 010101 0101011 010101 11010100 010101 11000101 010101 10 010101 01011 010101 101010100 010101 11000101 010101 10 010101 0 110 001101
- Amount of stanzas: 9
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 204
- Average number of words per stanza: 34
- Amount of lines: 64
- 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:
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 is repeated.
The author used the same word failure at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
The poet repeated the same word spreads at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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- summary of Promoted As It Spreads;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
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