This is an analysis of the poem Ommission that begins with:
What man has not betrayed
Some sacred trust?...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ababcdcd XdXdecec XbXXecec
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,8,8,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 111101 1101 010111 0101 110101 0101 110101 1101 100101 0111 0101010 0110 111111 1101 110101 1011 100110 0100 110100 0110 111101 1111 111111 1011
- Amount of stanzas: 2
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 289
- Average number of words per stanza: 50
- Amount of lines: 25
- Average number of symbols per line: 22 (very short strings)
- Average number of words per line: 4
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.
The poet repeated the same word do at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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- summary of Ommission;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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