This is an analysis of the poem Staying True that begins with:
She has everything she has ever wanted.
A shallow and successful emptiness....
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aXaXab XXaXba
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,6,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11101111010 0101010100 101011 1010 1110101001 11110101 11 100101010 10110101 101001 110100101 111101
- Amount of stanzas: 2
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 179
- Average number of words per stanza: 31
- Amount of lines: 12
- Average number of symbols per line: 29 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 5
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
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- summary of Staying True;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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