This is an analysis of the poem Subtle These Scenes Are Not that begins with:
I am not on the side of apartheid.
Or the camouflage of it as democracy....
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aXXabcd acXXbdd
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 7,7,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: Shakespearean sonnet
- Metre: 1111010011 101010010100 101011000 100111 10010010 110101 001001001101 101111 1010101 100001 01010100 1010001101 01001010 1100001
- Amount of stanzas: 2
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 217
- Average number of words per stanza: 38
- Amount of lines: 14
- Average number of symbols per line: 30 (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 Subtle These Scenes Are Not;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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