This is an analysis of the poem Threats To Keep A People In Grief that begins with:
How can we seek solutions...
When our denials love to bask, ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abX ab Xc cXc aXd D X D X D DXDXDXDX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 3,2,2,3,3,1,1,1,1,1,8,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1111010 11010101 00101101 1111100111 1100111 111100100101 1100001 110010101 11001100 10110101001 1011010 10101000100 0110101001 10101001 1111001 110101001 11 110101001 10101001 1111001 110101001 11 10101001 1111001 110101001 11
- Amount of stanzas: 11
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 76
- Average number of words per stanza: 15
- Amount of lines: 26
- 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.
The speaker asks many questions. Perhaps, he or she is in confusion.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; threats, to, keep, people, in, grief are repeated.
The author used the same word how 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 grief is repeated).
The poet repeated the same word grief at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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