This is an analysis of the poem Today... A Raised Eyebrow Is Praised that begins with:
When does an obscenity achieve,
Acceptance status? ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XaXabc deeXacX XbdbXc
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,7,6,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: shakespearean sonnet
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 111010001 01010 1101001 010001101 11101001 10110100100 01 10111 00110101 01010 00100 10101 011110101 101010111 11101011101 01 011101 01010110011 1101001001011
- Amount of stanzas: 3
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 192
- Average number of words per stanza: 32
- Amount of lines: 19
- Average number of symbols per line: 30 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 5
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.
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- summary of Today... A Raised Eyebrow Is Praised;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
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