This is an analysis of the poem Values Have Rapidly Descended that begins with:
I am not one who will debate,
What rakes or other equipment to be used......
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ABCD aba aaba ccbX bebc Xaee fcfbABCD
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,3,4,4,4,4,8,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rondeau rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11111001 11110010001 10101011 10001001101 111010101 000101101 010011101 01101011100 1010001110100 11101010 11 11011101110 0011110010 1100010 11 10101110 01011100 10101110 111001110011 1 1111001101 1011101 01111110100 1010100 010010100110 110110100 11110 11111001 11110010001 10101011 10001001101
- Amount of stanzas: 7
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 148
- Average number of words per stanza: 26
- Amount of lines: 31
- Average number of symbols per line: 33 (medium-length strings)
- 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 Values Have Rapidly Descended;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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