This is an analysis of the poem Super Duped that begins with:
Who convinced the people,
They should feed their biased needs? ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: AB CD AB cD AA CCDCD AA CC AB CDXABCCDCDCCDdDd
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 2,2,2,2,2,5,2,2,2,16,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rondeau rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 101010 1111101 111101000 11011001 101010 11011111 111101000 11011001 1101010 10001010 11111010001 001010101 1011101 101 1011101 1101010 10001010 11111010001 001010101 101010 1111101 111101000 11011001 101010 11011111 11111010001 001010101 1011101 101 1011101 101 101 101111101 1 101111101 1
- Amount of stanzas: 11
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 101
- Average number of words per stanza: 17
- Amount of lines: 36
- 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 speaker asks many questions. Perhaps, he or she is in confusion.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; super, duped, and are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words they, and, super are repeated.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines duped is repeated).
If you write a school or university poetry essay, you should Include in your explanation of the poem:
- summary of Super Duped;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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