This is an analysis of the poem They Have Embraced The Act Of Panic that begins with:

With opportunities,
For some long gone! ...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: AB aAXcBD ABbeXFG ABFG aAXcBD aADEXaADE
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 2,6,7,4,6,9,
  • Closest metre: iambic trimeter
  • Сlosest rhyme: rondeau rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 010100 1111 10 01010 010100100 101 001010 110111010 010100 1111 0101 110101010 101110 10101110 11 010100 1111 10101110 11 10 01010 010100100 101 001010 110111010 10 11110 11101 01010 10 11110 11101 01010
  • Amount of stanzas: 7
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 107
  • Average number of words per stanza: 16
  • Amount of lines: 33
  • Average number of symbols per line: 22 (very short strings)
  • Average number of words per line: 3
  • 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; have is repeated.

    The author used the same words with, blessings at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.

    There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines blessings is repeated).

    The poet repeated the same words wrong, panic at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.

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  • summary of They Have Embraced The Act Of Panic;
  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
  • critical appreciation.

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