This is an analysis of the poem The Most Precious Attribute that begins with:
They are fed violence,
They are fed destruction....
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XabbXbacdc dcaX baXddb
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 10,4,6,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: enclosed rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 111100 111010 111101101 10100110001 111110010110 11 10010 1010010110100 10011110011111010 011001101111 101 111011111000100 1010010 01010101 10010010110101 111001 1 1110001 1001100111111
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 161
- Average number of words per stanza: 28
- Amount of lines: 19
- Average number of symbols per line: 33 (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; they, fed, on are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word they is repeated.
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- summary of The Most Precious Attribute;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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