This is an analysis of the poem With Self Defeating Skills that begins with:
Some folks provoke their own agonies.
And with collective action......
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aXaXbccab
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 9,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: limerick
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 110111100 1001010 10110001 11101011 00101010000010 0011010 0010100100 01010101 01111101
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 321
- Average number of words per stanza: 53
- Amount of lines: 9
- Average number of symbols per line: 35 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 6
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; of is repeated.
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- summary of With Self Defeating Skills;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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