This is an analysis of the poem Seduced To Feed Upon Beliefs that begins with:
I keep reminding myself...
people are where they are in their minds. ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XaXbac XbbX cdeXXa abeXXbd abcbX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,4,6,7,5,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1101011 101111011 00101100 10101 01011010 0010001 110100110100 010011110010 001101010011 0001010 11 10101 1001011 101001100 101 100101010101 0001011111 11010101 10000010101 111101 111010101 10110101010 11100100 1100101100 1010 11101 10010111 110010111110
- Amount of stanzas: 5
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 182
- Average number of words per stanza: 30
- Amount of lines: 28
- 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; that is repeated.
The author used the same word and at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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- summary of Seduced To Feed Upon Beliefs;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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