This is an analysis of the poem The Epidemic Of Disinterest that begins with:
It may have started as an envy.
Something petty kept over decades......
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ABXCDBE Ddbff DgXebd bdhbdb eebbXf DfDbdDbea ABXCDBEedbeagf XeIDeIDXXeIDe cIDde DXHDX DXHDX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 7,5,6,6,6,9,14,13,5,5,5,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: enclosed rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 011101110 101011001 11001000 011101010001 011010 10101001100 100010111 0101000100 01011101 1101101011 001000100 101 0101000100 011010 1101001001 1010101011 10011 00101010111 10000010 011100001 1110001100101 010111110 1011 00100110 0110111001 11101 110111 0010010110010 001010111 1101 0101000100 0100110010101 0101000100 110001 01000110101 0101000100 10100100 101001101010 1011010100 011101110 101011001 11001000 011101010001 011010 10101001100 100010111 1 01010001001 10101001 110101011010 00100100 001011100101 1010100100010 0011 1101101 1101 0101000100 01110011 1101 0101000100 00100101001001 1101010101 010101 1101 0101000100 011100101 111100 1101 0101000100 111101 1101001 1101001 101 01 1101001 101 1101001 101 01 1101001 101
- Amount of stanzas: 11
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 226
- Average number of words per stanza: 37
- Amount of lines: 81
- Average number of symbols per line: 30 (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.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; to, and, of are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word the is repeated.
The author used the same words the, we at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
The poet repeated the same word 'what' at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
The literary device anadiplosis is detected in two or more neighboring lines. The words/phrases jealousies, fakers connect the lines.
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- summary of The Epidemic Of Disinterest;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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