This is an analysis of the poem Troubled Minds that begins with:
How many people will find,
In their minds they've been confined....
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: AABB CADD BEBD AABB BEBD CADDDD AaDD AADD AbdbXa CADDafcFCXcFcFC
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,6,4,4,6,15,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1101001 0111001 1101001 101010101001 1101001 1001001 1011001 10111011111 1101011 010101011 01100101 10001011100110 1101001 0111001 1101001 101010101001 1101011 010101011 01100101 10001011100110 1101001 1001001 1011001 10111011111 10001011100110 00101110101110 1101001 01111001 10001011100110 00101110101110 1101001 0111001 10001011100110 00101110101110 1101001 10111011 111100101 1100110101101 1 101100111 1101001 1001001 1011001 10111011111 001010101 101 1 101 1011001111 1 101 1 101 1011001111
- Amount of stanzas: 11
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 172
- Average number of words per stanza: 32
- Amount of lines: 54
- Average number of symbols per line: 34 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 6
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; they, it, no are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words and, no 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.
The poet repeated the same words others, go at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
The literary device anadiplosis is detected in two or more neighboring lines. The word/phrase no connects the lines.
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- summary of Troubled Minds;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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