This is an analysis of the poem The Obnoxious Ones that begins with:

Recession?
From what use to be to what is now, ...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: aBXcXd efeXcfffX aBfecdeggX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,9,10,
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: shakespearean sonnet
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 010 011000101 00100100 101100100101 01010010110 10101 1011101111 0101 10100010 101110000 00100100110 011101000100 11110100101 1010101 0111 010 011000101 0100 1010111011000 10001001010111 10101011 1101100101 101 100101 1111010111
  • Amount of stanzas: 3
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 280
  • Average number of words per stanza: 50
  • Amount of lines: 25
  • Average number of symbols per line: 33 (medium-length strings)
  • Average number of words per line: 6
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; to is repeated.

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  • summary of The Obnoxious Ones;
  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
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