This is an analysis of the poem Fireworks that begins with:
You hate me and I hate you,
And we are so polite, we two! ... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aa bbcc XXbb cc ddcX ccccXaa
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 2,4,4,2,4,7,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1111111 11110111 10101111101 1100101101 011100111 100101111 10101111 10101100 1110001 10011100 11001011101 1101111011 1111111010 111001010 01011101 111100110 1010011 100100011 10010101 1111100101 11111111 011111111
- Amount of stanzas: 7
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 113
- Average number of words per stanza: 21
- Amount of lines: 22
- 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; you, and, i are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word and is repeated.
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