This is an analysis of the poem Put Down Your Weapons that begins with:
Put down your weapons!
What do you defend? ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: AbabXXXcXXbXXXAcXdaabdAbXbbXbX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 30,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11110 11101 1101010 01111 1100001 1101 101010010 0111010 0010100 100011010 1100111 0110010001 110101 1001010101000 11110 00111 1011111 11010101 11110100101 1111101011 11000111 1100010110101 11110 10100111 01001101 100101 111111101 100101 0101001011 11111001010
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 976
- Average number of words per stanza: 164
- Amount of lines: 30
- Average number of symbols per line: 32 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 5
Mood of the speaker:
There are many exclamation marks in the poem. The speaker is excited. He or she has strong feelings on the subject that is described in the poem.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and, of are repeated.
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- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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