This is an analysis of the poem They Have Amongst Themselves Outlawed Living that begins with:
I have been who I am,
Making my own decisions....
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abbXcbXdeXXffX abgbXecfXdgX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 14,12,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: shakespearean sonnet
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 110111 1011010 11011111 110110001010 101010100111 1011100110100 101100101100 010010100 10111101101100 1110101001101 011001010001 11101111 11111101110 01 10111 1011011001 110111 110101 101000101100 1101011110 101001111001 1110010 1010111110110 1011111001100 01001110101 1
- Amount of stanzas: 2
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 497
- Average number of words per stanza: 90
- Amount of lines: 26
- Average number of symbols per line: 37 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 7
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; or, to are repeated.
The literary device anadiplosis is detected in two or more neighboring lines. The word/phrase it connects the lines.
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- summary of They Have Amongst Themselves Outlawed Living;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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