This is an analysis of the poem Walls Of Division that begins with:
Responding self-righteously,
To what is perceived to be negativity......
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabcXd befbbgb gXhbcX fefehe XfdXX ii heX da befgdi FEFeeXFFFfFBFEFBFFFBFBFFb
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,7,6,6,5,2,3,2,6,25,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 0101100 010010010100 10100011 1010001 00010101001001 01010110100001 1111010001001 1101 001001001010 0010001 1011101011 10111010111 101010010110 10011001011 1101010 11111101011 001010010010100 100011010 010110011010 110100110 10101101001 11001001010 11110111001 10111010 1111101 1 1010110110010 101110001 1101001001 111001010 111111 001011101001 1011001011 101101100 001101100100 11011100010 1111010101100 1100010110 1 11101111 0101101001001 0110010 10101101 100100010 10101010011 100100010 101010101001 1110000010101 100100010 101001111 100100010 101010111001 100100010 11111111 100100010 10101010011 100100010 11111111 100100010 101001111 100100010 11111111 100100010 11111111 100100010 101001111 111111111
- Amount of stanzas: 11
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 238
- Average number of words per stanza: 42
- Amount of lines: 67
- Average number of symbols per line: 38 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 7
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, walls, it, of are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word we is repeated.
The author used the same word walls at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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- summary of Walls Of Division;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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