This is an analysis of the poem Until All Itching Has Been Scratched From It that begins with:
Truth and popularity do not mix.
In some minds this is an unfit relationship....
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ABC Add daX dXdXdXABCad
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 3,3,3,11,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 1110100111 011001010101 11000000101 1110100111 1001011111 110010000110 1110110101 110101011100 100010101011000 11101010101 10111 010101001 101001 110101 1110100111 011001010101 11000000101 111101 0111010100
- Amount of stanzas: 5
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 147
- Average number of words per stanza: 25
- Amount of lines: 19
- Average number of symbols per line: 38 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 7
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and is repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word and is repeated.
The author used the same words truth, and at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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- summary of Until All Itching Has Been Scratched From It;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
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