This is an analysis of the poem Undermining Themselves that begins with:
Undermining themselves,
To have done this successfully....
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aXaXb XcbaddaX efecfX c X ce X ccfc XX Xfeefe XfX XXaXbbc
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 5,8,6,1,1,2,1,4,2,6,3,7,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 101001 01100100 01011001110 110101000 111110100010 110010100101 01010100 11001 101110100 110 1010110 1010101110100 110100111 11010111010 1001000010010 11010100100100 1001111011 011010001111 10100101110110 10101111111 1101 101010101 100100101 1011 1 10010101 011000100111 010001010101 11 11110010 1 1 0010111110 1110011 101010001 1111101 1 1 1110 111110 11 11010111110 10101 101 0110001 111101111
- Amount of stanzas: 12
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 118
- Average number of words per stanza: 20
- Amount of lines: 46
- 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.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; to is repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word times is repeated.
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- summary of Undermining Themselves;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
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- critical appreciation.
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