This is an analysis of the poem There Is No Defense Against It that begins with:
False images kept and projected,
To keep created beliefs......
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abccddcca XbebcXcee
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 9,9,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 110011010 0101001 1000100001 10101 01001001001 0101001101 01000100000 01000001101 110101010010 0101010100100010 110101010100 1100101101 1100100101 1010010111001 0100010010011 10101010 101010111101 11100100101
- Amount of stanzas: 2
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 383
- Average number of words per stanza: 62
- Amount of lines: 18
- Average number of symbols per line: 42 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 7
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; of, to are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word a is repeated.
The literary device anadiplosis is detected in two or more neighboring lines. The words/phrases cells, threats connect the lines.
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- summary of There Is No Defense Against It;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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