This is an analysis of the poem To Live Without Being Betrayed that begins with:
They grew to tell and sell sold lies.
With a doing not to realize, ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabccaX acX XXccdabdX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 7,3,9,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rondeau rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11011111 001010101 11101001001 111101010 011001101 11111001001 10111011 1110011 01011001 1101100001 1 1111111 101111110 1111101 1001011111 10111001 01000101 1111011010010 10100
- Amount of stanzas: 3
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 219
- Average number of words per stanza: 39
- Amount of lines: 19
- Average number of symbols per line: 34 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 6
Mood of the speaker:
The speaker asks many questions. Perhaps, he or she is in confusion.
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, you are repeated.
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- summary of To Live Without Being Betrayed;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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