This is an analysis of the poem Tell Them Anything To Believe! that begins with:
Tell them anything to believe!
That kept policy of philosophy, ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: AXXbcdbd AeeXbbdb Xbecd
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,8,5,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: heroic couplets
- Metre: 10101001 1110000100 0110101010 11101101 011010001 0101001010 0010000001 11110111 10101001 111110 011101001 010110010 111011101 1011001101 0110111101 1001010110110001 111110011101 11001 0100011101010 110101001001 0101011010101
- Amount of stanzas: 3
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 277
- Average number of words per stanza: 48
- Amount of lines: 21
- Average number of symbols per line: 39 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 7
Mood of the speaker:
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 is repeated.
The author used the same word tell at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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