This is an analysis of the poem To Mask Insecurities that begins with:
The sickness of those sickened...
Is part of a culture raise to digest, ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abc Xad abddebea XXc bcX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 3,3,8,3,3,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: enclosed rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 0100110 0100101001 101100 0001000100 11001010 0110100 1101101 11010110 111101 0100011111 11110100 10001 11100 010000111 1110100101100 101000 010101011010 010010001 011110 110011010101
- Amount of stanzas: 5
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 133
- Average number of words per stanza: 22
- Amount of lines: 20
- Average number of symbols per line: 33 (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; and is repeated.
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- summary of To Mask Insecurities;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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