This is an analysis of the poem Scruples that begins with:
Very few with scruples,
Are around anymore....
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ab XXXXXX a a bccdXcX XdXa
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 2,6,1,1,7,4,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 101010 101101 10 11010 0111101 11101101 010 11011 101110 11110 11111 10101 1010100 1010010 0100100 110011101 0010010010 1 01110 0100 1110
- Amount of stanzas: 6
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 81
- Average number of words per stanza: 15
- Amount of lines: 21
- Average number of symbols per line: 23 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 4
Mood of the speaker:
The speaker asks many questions. Perhaps, he or she is in confusion.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and is repeated.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines scruples is repeated).
The poet repeated the same word scruples at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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- summary of Scruples;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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