This is an analysis of the poem Slaves To The Rhythm that begins with:
Dedicated and remaining devoted,
To one's belief with discipline......
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abcadc ddcXbcac dECF dECF dECFFFFdECF EgEgEgEg
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,8,4,4,11,8,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: enclosed rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 10001010010 01010100 10100001 1110010 110100 110101111 1001000011010 00110101 0100101101 110101100011 1100000010 0110101100101 11111011100010 00100011101000101 1 0010 101001 0101100101 1 0010 101001 0101100101 1 0010 101001 0101100101 0101100101 0101100101 0101100101 1 0010 101001 0101100101 0010 10 0010 10 0010 10 0010 10
- Amount of stanzas: 6
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 193
- Average number of words per stanza: 34
- Amount of lines: 41
- Average number of symbols per line: 27 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- 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; those, to, and, repeated, kept, with, it, hard, leave are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word repeated is repeated.
The author used the same word slaves at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines leave is repeated).
The poet repeated the same word leave at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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- summary of Slaves To The Rhythm;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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