This is an analysis of the poem This Festival Of Liars Grows that begins with:

Everywhere in the atmosphere,
The gossip flies as innuendos are told....

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: XaaXXbcd edbbacecX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,9,
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: couplets
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 10100101 01011001011 101000101001111 01011010 1101010 11101101110 10101 110111100 01101010 0111101 100101001001 1100010110100 1001000010 00101001 101000101 101010101 1101001000110111
  • Amount of stanzas: 2
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 325
  • Average number of words per stanza: 52
  • Amount of lines: 17
  • Average number of symbols per line: 37 (medium-length strings)
  • Average number of words per line: 6
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

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  • summary of This Festival Of Liars Grows;
  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
  • critical appreciation.

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