This is an analysis of the poem The Minds Of Those Like These that begins with:
The escalation of a hatred,
By those accustomed to doing it......
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ABCXde ffgGBEaffGGBE ffdhhAXaAdd fgGBEaffGGBE ABC ddbXidX fgGBEaffGGBE eeiffDXffD
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,13,11,12,3,7,12,10,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: enclosed rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 010100010 110100100 01010110 11111 1010101 101100101 0100 0100 11101 1101 110 1001 1 0100 0100 1101 1101 110 1001 11001000110 1010001 01000101 101111111010 1011111110 11101 010101101000 11011001 11101 1001010 101110100010 0100 10001101 1101 110 1001 1 0100 0100 1101 1101 110 1001 010100010 110100100 01010110 11011101 1001001101 011001000 0110101 0100100100 0101010 1110101010 0100 10001101 1101 110 1001 1 0100 0100 1101 1101 110 1001 001001 11011101 00100110111100 0100 0100 010111 0100 0100 010111
- Amount of stanzas: 9
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 192
- Average number of words per stanza: 31
- Amount of lines: 73
- Average number of symbols per line: 23 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 4
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; and, incredible are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words incredible, what, so are repeated.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines incredible, know are repeated).
The poet repeated the same word these 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 word/phrase incredible connects the lines.
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- summary of The Minds Of Those Like These;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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