This is an analysis of the poem What Is The Purpose Of Your Faith? that begins with:
What do you have to lose,
By taking a chance? ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XX X a XX X XX b XXX bacXc
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 2,1,1,2,1,2,1,3,5,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 111101 11001 1 1 1 1 100 1 1 101001 1 1 111010 1 10010011 11000 00101101 0010111
- Amount of stanzas: 9
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 32
- Average number of words per stanza: 7
- Amount of lines: 18
- Average number of symbols per line: 16 (very short strings)
- Average number of words per line: 3
Mood of the speaker:
The speaker asks many questions. Perhaps, he or she is in confusion.
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 What Is The Purpose Of Your Faith?;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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