This is an analysis of the poem Whores Of A Disposal Culture that begins with:
Why would a people willfully give away
Bits and pieces of a heritage so rich and timeless... ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ABcD eeXbe fgffXh ABcDXfeegcche
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,5,6,13,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: shakespearean sonnet
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11010100101 11100010011110 101101010100 10101111010 11010100101 0100111010 1111 10101101 1100110 100111 0100010010 0100011010 100110 110001001 101010100 11010100101 11100010011110 1011010110100 10101111010 1001010101001 11101 111010111011 10100010010 11 111 10100100 010101
- Amount of stanzas: 5
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 190
- Average number of words per stanza: 32
- Amount of lines: 27
- Average number of symbols per line: 34 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 6
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.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and is repeated.
The author used the same word why at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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