This is an analysis of the poem Withering Rights that begins with:
On my mind are these times.
With their withering rights....
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abbcdeXcXc cad fbXb ffg begbcXc XXeX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 10,3,4,3,7,4,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 111111 011001 111110100 01111 10101001001010 0011010 11000100011 101 110010010 011 101100101 11101 01101110 111111 010101 0101010 11000011100 1111 010000010 11100101111 01001001 110100110 110011 0111 1011 10110011100 1010111111 110111111 1110010 1101 1110010
- Amount of stanzas: 6
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 157
- Average number of words per stanza: 28
- Amount of lines: 31
- 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:
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, my are repeated.
The author used the same word and at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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- summary of Withering Rights;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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