This is an analysis of the poem Told Not To Believe What They See that begins with:
Whose to know what reality is?
When so many have been relying upon it, ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abXXaacdXXcee XXdbb
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 13,5,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: enclosed rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 101101000 111010010010 00111010001010 110001010 1101010 00101 01100000110 1100001101 101101011010 1110011010 1110111 101011010001 1011001111 11111111 1 111001101110 101011011011101
- Amount of stanzas: 3
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 216
- Average number of words per stanza: 39
- Amount of lines: 17
- Average number of symbols per line: 37 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 7
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; to, who are repeated.
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- summary of Told Not To Believe What They See;
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- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
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