This is an analysis of the poem The Worst And The Best that begins with:

in the hospitals and jails
it's the worst...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: aBXBaBXBacXBaaBacaBbddB
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 23,
  • Closest metre: iambic trimeter
  • Сlosest rhyme: limerick
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 0011011 001 0100 001 0110 001 011100 001 110010 1110 110010010 001 1100 110 001 101 1101 110010 001 111 111 1111 001
  • Amount of stanzas: 1
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 366
  • Average number of words per stanza: 71
  • Amount of lines: 23
  • Average number of symbols per line: 15 (very short strings)
  • Average number of words per line: 3
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; at is repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word at is repeated.

    There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines m is repeated).

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