This is an analysis of the poem Where Will Their Greed Lead Them that begins with:

Now that they've been smeared and jeered...
After what they did to the economy and the atmosphere....

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: aXXBcDXdeeXfcXfaXBbcD XXX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 21,3,
  • Closest metre: iambic trimeter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 1110111 1011000010010101 101110 11101001010 10101 1011 10011010 110111001 01110 010010 1001 0010110101 0100101 110 1101 11011 101011101 11101001010 1010 0101 1011 1 11101001 11010
  • Amount of stanzas: 2
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 355
  • Average number of words per stanza: 59
  • Amount of lines: 25
  • Average number of symbols per line: 28 (strings are less long than medium ones)
  • Average number of words per line: 5
  • 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.

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  • summary of Where Will Their Greed Lead Them;
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  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
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