This is an analysis of the poem The Defense Against that begins with:
If people had invested more of their interest,
In living vibrant and wholesome lives to live......
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aXXb abc cddd
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,3,4,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 0101010101100 01010110101 01001001 0100010010100 10010111100 11000100 000101011010 11101 101011011 110100110110 01011110100010
- Amount of stanzas: 3
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 149
- Average number of words per stanza: 25
- Amount of lines: 11
- Average number of symbols per line: 40 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 7
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; of is repeated.
The author used the same word and at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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- summary of The Defense Against;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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