This is an analysis of the poem Those Who Are Born To Leech that begins with:
If I am here to leave a recipe...
It may go ignored....
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abbcXdX eaace Xd XXXX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 7,5,2,4,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 0111010100 01101 01110101 0101 010111110010 1101010101 1101 111 10000100100 011000100 0010101011 00101001 111110101 1 1111101 1101010 11 010101
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 128
- Average number of words per stanza: 23
- Amount of lines: 18
- Average number of symbols per line: 28 (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; it, may, to are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words it, to are repeated.
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- summary of Those Who Are Born To Leech;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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