This is an analysis of the poem What Self Righteousness Is Blessed that begins with:

Don't hand me that fight for honor nonsense,
Needing to be won and done by anyone......

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: aXb aXb cXb daa dacXdab
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 3,3,3,3,7,
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: rondeau rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 1111111010 10001111100 001010101111 1101100 1010 1001101110 1110001 11010101 010101001010 1010101 1101011101 1110000101 110110 110100100 111110010 1 0101001 110100101110010
  • Amount of stanzas: 6
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 108
  • Average number of words per stanza: 18
  • Amount of lines: 18
  • Average number of symbols per line: 35 (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 is repeated.

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  • summary of What Self Righteousness Is Blessed;
  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
  • critical appreciation.

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