This is an analysis of the poem Too Bad We Can Not Cease Our Addictions that begins with:
Under steeples in pews praying,
Are the people of faith deep in their wishes......
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abccdcX Xefbb Xfd beagffh XchXhgbXX befabhXhXXbfh
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 7,5,3,7,9,13,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 10100110 10100110110 01110 10101100 1111 10 0101 111010101000 11011 110010101 001110 01001010 1101111010 0010011101 0101011101 100010010 011 1111010 0100111 0110 111101 0111010 1 11110001100 1011101001 10101010 0011010011 111011 11111 111010 1111111 111010 010 101011 11010110 111101 011010111 1010110100010 11100110101 0111 01111111010 0111110001 10100111
- Amount of stanzas: 7
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 193
- Average number of words per stanza: 35
- Amount of lines: 43
- Average number of symbols per line: 31 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- 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.
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- summary of Too Bad We Can Not Cease Our Addictions;
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