This is an analysis of the poem This Sweeping Affliction Diseasing that begins with:
People 'peceiving' themselves protected,
By time they have taken to invest in deceptions......
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abaaXXXccbXa X XaXccXaX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 12,1,8,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1010001010 1111100010010 0101110010 00110111010 011100001001 111100001 010010100 1001011010001 1101001001 1010 111010101 0111011010 100011111011 11110 111111 11010010 1 1111101101 100100110010 111010 0110101001011
- Amount of stanzas: 3
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 260
- Average number of words per stanza: 40
- Amount of lines: 21
- Average number of symbols per line: 36 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 6
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.
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- summary of This Sweeping Affliction Diseasing;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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