This is an analysis of the poem Lying that begins with:
To claim, at a dead party, to have spotted a grackle,
When in fact you haven't of late, can do no harm. ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abcdceccdfghaXXddccXheigegicggjgfcakfcjeleeeegjjlacjdajXgcagjcgjXffjcXcehkjfbdjgkcfja
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 85,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: shakespearean sonnet
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 01101100110010 101110011111 1101011010100 0101011001010 10010010101 01011101010 10110100101 0111010100 10101010101 110101010010 0111010011 11010100001 1111000001 010101100 0101111100 0111001101 10110101010 0111010101 1101000100 01010111001 1101100101 11110110101 01110000101 10010010101 0101011110 1101010111 1101110111 1101100111 1111011101 0100111100 1101010001 1001110101 11011101010 1001011101 0001000111 1001010101 10110011001 01010101001 0111000101 11111101010 1101010100 11010111010 0011110101 11000101010 1111010101 00110100101 1001010101 0101010111 0100101101 0111011101 1011001101 0111010101 1111010111 0111110101 11010101110 0111010101 01010010111 00110101010 1001110111 11101101000 0111100101 1111010111 1101110101 1111101101 110001010 00100110101 01010001010 1111100101 0101010001 001011001010 0011100111 11010101010 1011111101 0101010001 1001011101 01000110010 1011010111 01110011101 1100010101 1011000100 1101110011 0011011111 01010101001 1001110111 11010111010
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 3788
- Average number of words per stanza: 681
- Amount of lines: 85
- Average number of symbols per line: 44 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 8
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; to, of, there, in are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word the is repeated.
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- summary of Lying;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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