This is an analysis of the poem Teachings Of Fear that begins with:
Where do people first hear about evil?
And what those demonic do? ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ABCcDEE ffeefeX dgheeiei ABCcDEEe dijhgXdjXX XdX XhX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 7,7,8,8,10,3,3,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1110110110 1110101 111001 1111011 10101100 01011 00101 11111 11101 0101001 01111 110101111 0011100 11110 11100 01101000010011 001000110 10101000001 01010000 1110011 1111011010 001111111 1110110110 1110101 111001 111011011 10101100 01011 00101 1111 11 11010011010 110110010 1101001 00100111 11111111100 1111011 01 11101 11101010 1011100 0 11 1101010100 00111100 11010110
- Amount of stanzas: 7
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 193
- Average number of words per stanza: 35
- Amount of lines: 46
- 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 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; to, and are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word i is repeated.
The author used the same word where at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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- summary of Teachings Of Fear;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
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