This is an analysis of the poem This Comes To Those Who Loved To Pose Near Ghettos that begins with:

An accustomed greed
Did not allow them to consolidate, ...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: abaXaac acdefcaXccc cX bXccgacX gaafXcc abbcbXaed
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 7,11,2,8,7,9,
  • Closest metre: iambic trimeter
  • Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 10101 0101000101 0101 1100110 110010 10101 0111 111 01010010 10101010 101000110 1010 1010101 11011010011 111011001 0110110 11011010 01101 1101 0100000101101 1011101 001011111 01011101110 010001010110 111101101 10110001110 1110100101010 100111001 10101 1110101 100101 00101010 1111100 1110010001 01 1110 001010101 11101 01010 101 010100010100 01000110001001 11010111 110101111
  • Amount of stanzas: 6
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 230
  • Average number of words per stanza: 38
  • Amount of lines: 44
  • Average number of symbols per line: 30 (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.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and, that, to are repeated.

    The author used the same word and at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.

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  • summary of This Comes To Those Who Loved To Pose Near Ghettos;
  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
  • critical appreciation.

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