This is an analysis of the poem The Hype And Marketing Of Medocrity that begins with:

They belong to that generation,
That just isn't going to get it! ...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: abXXXXcdb aXXebXX Xdbb Xdffa dbXgegXcXcbbd
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 9,7,4,5,13,
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 101011010 110010010 11010101 1110010100 01010011 100100 1101010 1110111 10111 101011010 011111101 1101101110 1 11001 01010 010101011 11111011 10100100 100101 0110100111001 11111011 10110 010110101001 1101 001111110010 110110110 1 1010011101 1010010 00101010101001 111001111101 101110001000 1110111101 110111 10 1 1110
  • Amount of stanzas: 6
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 200
  • Average number of words per stanza: 35
  • Amount of lines: 37
  • Average number of symbols per line: 32 (medium-length strings)
  • Average number of words per line: 6
  • 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 words they, that's, and at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.

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  • summary of The Hype And Marketing Of Medocrity;
  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
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