This is an analysis of the poem Poetry Is A Destructive Force that begins with:
That's what misery is,
Nothing to have at heart....
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abXXbc Xcb dbdXdad
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,3,7,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: rondeau rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: rondeau
- Metre: 111000 100111 0001110 000101 01011001 010101 10111 111101 110111 10101 0010001001 010101 0101001 010101 01101
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 94
- Average number of words per stanza: 20
- Amount of lines: 15
- Average number of symbols per line: 24 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 5
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; to, have are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words it, he are repeated.
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- summary of Poetry Is A Destructive Force;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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