This is an analysis of the poem Refusing To Instill An Obedience that begins with:
A belligerent disposition,
Does not overnight occur or begin....
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabccda aX becafeafbd dfXXfc bbfbbaXcf
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 7,2,10,6,9,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: enclosed rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 001001010 1110101101 01010101010 10111010 01011 01000101101010 1101000101010 11111110 11011011010000 110101011010 0010010111 101000101 1010001001 1 1101 111110 0111001 0101 11100 01000110100 10010001 100 01010100 11111111 1101010110100 11001010101 010011010101 001110 10001111001 1010011011 01000101100010 11010110001001 001 111000111011110
- Amount of stanzas: 5
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 244
- Average number of words per stanza: 40
- Amount of lines: 34
- Average number of symbols per line: 35 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 6
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.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines children is repeated).
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