This is an analysis of the poem Spoiled Or Determined that begins with:
I have been told,
I had been spoiled....
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabacdefgaheefaigcbgaeidcchXaXjijcjk cX X XX a caigaXXXik
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 36,2,1,2,1,10,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: enclosed rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1101 1101 1111101 101110 00101000 110100010 101111 110 010001 11101 11001010 11111 101001001 1100010 110001 1101010 11101 11101 11010111 0100010 011111 1 01010111 01010 0101 111110 100 110001 11101 1111 11010 0100101 10111 01000 11101 101 111111 10101 110101 11 1101010 1010 110 1111010 11010 0101 1111 11010100 010101000 01 11
- Amount of stanzas: 7
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 161
- Average number of words per stanza: 29
- Amount of lines: 51
- Average number of symbols per line: 21 (very short strings)
- Average number of words per line: 4
Mood of the speaker:
The speaker asks many questions. Perhaps, he or she is in confusion.
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; i is repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word i is repeated.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines ' is repeated).
The poet repeated the same word ' at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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- summary of Spoiled Or Determined;
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- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
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