This is an analysis of the poem Where You Live that begins with:
When truth to reveal,
Becomes suspect......
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XaBcBXccaac ddaX ecefef egX XhXca X fhAE EX caAEib EX Xiieg XiX ciiX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 11,4,6,3,5,1,4,2,6,2,5,3,4,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11001 0101 111 1010010 111 11110 101101 011110010 010111001 11001 011000010 11 11111111 0101101101 110111010 10010110000110 010011101101 00101 10100110111 11010101010 1111101 1110 1010010 111110100 111100 111100 1010111010 10011101 01100101 1111010101 111 111111000 0101010 1110101010 1111111010 1101010 111 11110010 0101010 1110101010 110101010101 0010001111 1111111010 1101010 10 1101 1110001010 1101101 101001010 1 101010 11011010 0 110100110 1010010 11101
- Amount of stanzas: 13
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 128
- Average number of words per stanza: 23
- Amount of lines: 56
- Average number of symbols per line: 29 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 5
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; you, where, of are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word i is repeated.
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- summary of Where You Live;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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