This is an analysis of the poem Spankings Overdue that begins with:
Religious pageantries are ending.
Rituals performed that feed on sins and fear......
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XXabcb d XaXdXccX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,1,8,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: rondeau
- Metre: 010100110 10001111111 11100101010 11001 111111 001001010010101 110101 10111110 10101010110 010011001 110111001001 110101 100101110 0011101011 0010010101001000
- Amount of stanzas: 3
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 192
- Average number of words per stanza: 30
- Amount of lines: 15
- Average number of symbols per line: 38 (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.
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- summary of Spankings Overdue;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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