This is an analysis of the poem Too Offensive To Face that begins with:
How swift we keep those games loved protected,
With a showing of a collective indignity......
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ABCdXdeefac ABCcXfafc
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 11,9,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: shakespearean sonnet
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1111111010 0010000100100 1001100010001 11010000101010001 101010010101 01010010111 110101001001 10100101001 10101010100001010 10100100101 011010101001 1111111010 0010000100100 1001100010001 11 100010100101 101001 1110010 10101101001 001010101011101
- Amount of stanzas: 2
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 432
- Average number of words per stanza: 71
- Amount of lines: 20
- Average number of symbols per line: 42 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- 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; of, to are repeated.
The author used the same word how at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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- summary of Too Offensive To Face;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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