This is an analysis of the poem This Has Been Distorted that begins with:
Don't 'ask' that your sorrows be removed from you.
Demand that they be removed! ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: AB CBDD EFB bXggX AB CBDD EFBXbbb hhhh EFBfXbe
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 2,4,3,5,2,4,7,4,7,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11111000101 0111001 111110010110100 010011 1101 01011011 0101111010 101010 10010101 1100101 11 1101001010 01010011 1010 11111000101 0111001 111110010110100 010011 1101 01011011 0101111010 101010 10010101 100111 1111011 010010 1011100010 01111 101001 11111 010111000001 0101111010 101010 10010101 1101101 011111 1110111110
- Amount of stanzas: 10
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 119
- Average number of words per stanza: 23
- Amount of lines: 37
- Average number of symbols per line: 32 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 6
Mood of the speaker:
There are many exclamation marks in the poem. The speaker is excited. He or she has strong feelings on the subject that is described in the poem.
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; your, you, god, that, to are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word you is repeated.
The author used the same words don't, if 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 god is repeated).
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- summary of This Has Been Distorted;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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