What is the effect of the predictable structure of the stanzas in "A Contribution to Statistics"?

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The predictable structure of the stanzas in "A Contribution to Statistics" by Wislawa Szymborska gives the readers a sense of the outcomes resulting from her research about human characteristics.

In the second stanza, the poet notes "of a hundred people," doubters are 48% (100% - 52%), only 52% know that they should live by faith. In another stanza, she concludes that those who live in constant fear are 77%. In all the stanzas, she supplies the statistics that qualify her research about human characteristics.

The predictability of her stanzas lies in the way she supplies human characteristics and then gives the corresponding proportions of the human population that either possesses the characteristics or fails the test.

Thus, using predictable structure in the stanzas of "A Contribution to Statistics" by Wislawa Szymborska makes reading the poem fascinating and educating, especially for those who read between the lines.

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