This is an analysis of the poem Refusing Then To Listen that begins with:
There were those selected and chosen,
To represent their causes....
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abbc ccbX ccbdbd cXaXdbX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,6,7,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rondeau rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 101010110 0101110 00010010100 11001010 10101 111101 11101010 011010000010 01101 111011101 10100101000 11110001 111101011101 110010101 1 1110010011000 10101010 110110010100 101010101 1010001 11011010110
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 190
- Average number of words per stanza: 30
- Amount of lines: 21
- Average number of symbols per line: 35 (medium-length strings)
- 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; to is repeated.
The author used the same word there at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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- summary of Refusing Then To Listen;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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