This is an analysis of the poem Temptations To Numb Pain that begins with:
Weaknesses fed...
Do not strengthen peace....
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abaXccdXdbbdXXcbacc
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 19,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: shakespearean sonnet
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1001 11101 10010010 01101 111010101 0100101 01010110 111011 1101101 011100 10110 0011011 110101 0101010 01001101 01101111 010111010010 1010011 10001
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 554
- Average number of words per stanza: 92
- Amount of lines: 19
- Average number of symbols per line: 28 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 5
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.
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