This is an analysis of the poem You Must Pay The Consequences that begins with:

They want their flowers to bloom,
On fields where they plant and pamper weeds....

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: ABBCB cdccbXecbc ABBCB bfcbdbdc bddXX XXecbghffXb bXbhcgbXedd
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 5,10,5,8,5,11,11,
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: enclosed rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 1111001 111111101 11111100101 1100110 1101001 111111 1101001001111 1110110100100 001101 10110101 0010010010100101 010010100111111 11010100100010 010011101001 100101001 1111001 111111101 11111100101 1100110 1101001 11110111 00110110011001 1001000101001001 0110001111001100 101 11010110101010 000100010101 0110100111001 111011010 11101 1 1110111 1011100101 1 1110100101010 0101100010 11011100 11010010 1010011101010 0101001000000111 1 0111011101001 1011000101101001 100110111 11101010101 10111001011 101111010 01101010 111001101011 1010 110111101010 01100011001111 111010 1011011101 110100010111
  • Amount of stanzas: 7
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 317
  • Average number of words per stanza: 56
  • Amount of lines: 55
  • Average number of symbols per line: 40 (medium-length strings)
  • Average number of words per line: 7
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; they, to, and are repeated.

    The author used the same word they at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.

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  • summary of You Must Pay The Consequences;
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  • history of its creation;
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