This is an analysis of the poem Switching The Goal Posts that begins with:
They are against those who oppose everything.
And those who oppose everything, ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aaXbcbbXdc bdXXXcbcbXX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 10,11,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 11011101101 11101101 1101010001101010 11110011 1100010101 11101101001011 01111001 0101001101 110101100101 11000100111101101 1011 101111001 0001001110110 1111111 1011100100101 0111011 1110001001010 11111 110100101101 101111011011 111001011
- Amount of stanzas: 2
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 441
- Average number of words per stanza: 80
- Amount of lines: 21
- Average number of symbols per line: 41 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 8
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; those, to, at are repeated.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines everything is repeated).
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- summary of Switching The Goal Posts;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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