This is an analysis of the poem Renegades that begins with:

Those cream puffs and their stuffed muffins...
Have, of late, been roughed up....

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: aXbcaXbd aXd Xceaee caadaX abXddbcaXaaXba
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,3,6,6,14,
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: limerick
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 11111110 101011 110101101 11101010 10101010100110 1000101100 1010011001101 01010101 1111110010 1110 0101 01110100001 11001001101 110101110011 11101 10010100101 101 111010100101 10101010 1110101 11110101001001 110110010010 101110111101 1101011001 0010100010 011101101 110101101 1101001001101 101111001 0110101001 01111 11011111000 111010101001 111100010101 01010100010100 10011110100 1010010010
  • Amount of stanzas: 5
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 298
  • Average number of words per stanza: 49
  • Amount of lines: 37
  • Average number of symbols per line: 39 (medium-length strings)
  • Average number of words per line: 7
  • 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; them, to are repeated.

    The author used the same word and at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.

If you write a school or university poetry essay, you should Include in your explanation of the poem:

  • summary of Renegades;
  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
  • critical appreciation.

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