This is an analysis of the poem You Taught This that begins with:
You taught this...
Use of division to win all decisions....
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ABcADEFG AeaeacbXcbAX ABaDEFGaheah
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,12,12,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 110 10010011010 1 110 1000101100 111 1011100001 00101011001 110 101110010101 1 11 010101001001 11101 1010101011 01101010100 11 101011110101 110 1001110111 110 10010011010 1010110 1000101100 111 1011100001 00101011001 1 1101 1101101101 1 1101
- Amount of stanzas: 3
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 294
- Average number of words per stanza: 53
- Amount of lines: 32
- Average number of symbols per line: 27 (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; you, to are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word you is repeated.
The author used the same word you at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
The literary device anadiplosis is detected in two or more neighboring lines. The word/phrase you connects the lines.
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- summary of You Taught This;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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