This is an analysis of the poem Those Who Lie Don'T Fly That High that begins with:

Those who lie don't fly that high.
Even with their clipped wings taped....

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: AbbXXA AcdXeX aeefff afgdhg AbcbebXhcgfeg
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,6,6,6,13,
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: rima
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 1111111 1001111 1010101010101 0011010101 011011110 1111111 1111111 0011101 1001010010101 111010 101110110101 100111100100 1110010001 0011010100 101000110110 00101010 0101000101011010 001010101100011 10111111 110010011 1010100101 1011011000101 1011010 01001001110 1111111 11 1100011010 10010 0011001101 10111001100 010110 1101111 0101110 01001010011 01010001111 111100111
  • Amount of stanzas: 6
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 228
  • Average number of words per stanza: 39
  • Amount of lines: 36
  • Average number of symbols per line: 37 (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.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; to is repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word those is repeated.

    The author used the same word those 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 high is repeated).

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