This is an analysis of the poem In Jest that begins with:

Goodbye, fame! Put someone else in my niche.
I’d swap a seat in the President’s jeep...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: ababcdcdefefgggghihijkjkXXik X
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 28,1,
  • Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: ballad stanza
  • Metre: 1111111011 11101001011 10110001 111110101 11110111 11110101 00010101 111100111 1111100101 010111011 11100001 11101101 111011110 11110010010 110011110 00111010 110100101 11111111 0010110101 101010001 011011001 1110001 1110111 10010011101 101010111 010111110 100100101 01110111 01011010001100100
  • Amount of stanzas: 2
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 536
  • Average number of words per stanza: 102
  • Amount of lines: 30
  • Average number of symbols per line: 35 (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; in, my, would are repeated.

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  • summary of In Jest;
  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
  • critical appreciation.

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