This is an analysis of the poem What 'Is' Normal Behavior? that begins with:
What today is being condoned to represent,
People choosing violence to 'vent'......
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aXbcaa decXeee fXabbb gdcc dccae XabcXXc gfeX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,7,6,4,5,7,4,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: enclosed rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 101010010101 101010001 11010100100 0010101010100 0011001 001000111 100 101011 1010010001100100 110010100 0011101 1101010 11111011111 001011010 10010011000 111010010 0100011011101 010010101 1100010101 1110010 1011001 0001111011 001000101111 111001001 1111011101 110101 111001100 001111 1110101110 010001101010 0101110100100 01001011 0010010 1101010100010 001011011 0010010 10011010 10101010 001111101011010
- Amount of stanzas: 7
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 207
- Average number of words per stanza: 34
- Amount of lines: 39
- Average number of symbols per line: 36 (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.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; to, and are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word to is repeated.
The author used the same word what at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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- summary of What 'Is' Normal Behavior?;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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