This is an analysis of the poem Social Security that begins with:
No one is safe. The streets are unsafe.
even in the safety zones, it's not safe....
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aaaabcad Xbecdcf XXegceXgcXXf XX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,7,12,2,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 110101101 1000101011 1011011 10111001 11110010101 00100101010 101111101 1110111101 111101001 10101010 011010 01111 1010111 0111110 101110101 0111101 101101111010 101101000110 10110101110 001011011 01101100110 1101010111 1101101101 110101100100 111110100 101010010110 11110010 01101001011 0100000000000
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 272
- Average number of words per stanza: 49
- Amount of lines: 29
- Average number of symbols per line: 37 (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; safe, even, not, felt, of are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words even, at are repeated.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines safe is repeated).
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- summary of Social Security;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
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