This is an analysis of the poem Regretting Their Actions that begins with:
Unfortunate are those,
Who select their victims with venom....
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: Abcbcda Aefagd dcgacc fXXaaaXe
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 7,6,6,8,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: shakespearean sonnet
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 010011 101110010 11110110101 011111000 110011 001010010 1010101 010011 010010101 11000 11010011 11110 00101010 0100110110 11101010001001 1011100101 111101 0101 111101 1010010 0010010100 11000111001 010010111 010110 10010010111 10110 1001
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 219
- Average number of words per stanza: 36
- Amount of lines: 27
- Average number of symbols per line: 32 (medium-length strings)
- 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 poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word those is repeated.
The author used the same word unfortunate at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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- summary of Regretting Their Actions;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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