This is an analysis of the poem Why Can'T They Identify Truth? that begins with:
Does a decay eating away for decades,
Need the existence of it identified......
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abcdbcXXXba bbebccXXde aXXa
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 11,10,4,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 10011001101 10010000101 1110100 01011011 1 111010100 1001110100010 001010000 1101001001 111101 1110111 1 11111 010010 1010100001 1111 1000011010100 1101110010001 0100100001010100 10101010 01010101111 111101 11101011 111010010 01101010100
- Amount of stanzas: 3
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 282
- Average number of words per stanza: 48
- Amount of lines: 25
- Average number of symbols per line: 33 (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; to, they, why are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word why is repeated.
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- summary of Why Can'T They Identify Truth?;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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