This is an analysis of the poem To Those Who Profess The Right To Ignore that begins with:
If providing military service is so honorable,
Why are there so many veterans homeless? ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XXabaXXb
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 0010101010011000 11111010010 110100101 11011110101000 1111001100101 0100101001010100 0110101001 11010111111
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 376
- Average number of words per stanza: 62
- Amount of lines: 8
- Average number of symbols per line: 46 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 8
Mood of the speaker:
The speaker asks many questions. Perhaps, he or she is in confusion.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; why, to are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word why is repeated.
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