This is an analysis of the poem Self Destructive Praise that begins with:
With no sense of natural rhythm.
And no sense of what that beat kept, ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XabXccb adXXdba
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 7,7,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: limerick
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: sonnet with trochaic tetrameter or irregular meter
- Metre: 011010010 11101111 1 0101111010 01101 1011101 11010010 11 101001110010 11101010101 1000111000 10010010 100010011011 001010110100101
- Amount of stanzas: 2
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 236
- Average number of words per stanza: 42
- Amount of lines: 14
- Average number of symbols per line: 33 (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; of is repeated.
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- summary of Self Destructive Praise;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
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