This is an analysis of the poem Waiting To Dispense A Benefit Of Doubt that begins with:
Doesn't it seem as if those with selective memories,
Are always quick to tell their versions of truth......
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aXb XcX cXaa cbX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 3,3,4,3,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 10011010010100 11110111001 01101 010101010111101 110010110 1010001 101101101101 110001100 1001010011111001 00110110 100111110001010 001010001001000110 110101011111101
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 149
- Average number of words per stanza: 27
- Amount of lines: 13
- Average number of symbols per line: 45 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 8
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; of is repeated.
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- summary of Waiting To Dispense A Benefit Of Doubt;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
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