This is an analysis of the poem The Value Of Ethics that begins with:
If a duck quacks and waddles,
Wearing a top hat while quacking......
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XXXXa XXabbXbbb
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 5,9,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: sonnet with trochaic tetrameter or irregular meter
- Metre: 0011110 10011110 101010110 1101101 00111 0011110 10011110 11 010101001100 01101 110101010 10001001 110011010 1010010010
- Amount of stanzas: 2
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 224
- Average number of words per stanza: 38
- Amount of lines: 14
- Average number of symbols per line: 31 (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.
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- summary of The Value Of Ethics;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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