This is an analysis of the poem The Distraction That Is that begins with:
The distraction that is,
Has always relied on the color of one's skin....
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: AbbXaa Acccca AXabXc
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,6,6,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: enclosed rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 001010 111011010011 01101010010010 011100110011 1010111101 1010001110101 001010 111001110 0001000100 110011110110 1010101 10110011101 001010 1100101111 1010100010 100101010 0111100101 00010010101011
- Amount of stanzas: 3
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 247
- Average number of words per stanza: 40
- Amount of lines: 18
- 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; and is repeated.
The author used the same word the at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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- summary of The Distraction That Is;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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