This is an analysis of the poem Weary that begins with:
Aw, I'm sick o' the whole darn human race,
An' I'm sick o' this mundane ball;... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ababcdcd efefecec bcbcgcgc agagXXaX aXaXgfgf
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,8,8,8,8,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: ballad stanza
- Metre: 1011011101 10110011 0110111101 1011111 011010111 0110111 11011101 1010101 100110101 0110101 1010011101 111101 111110101 1011111 01101101101 110111 11101111111 11110101 110110111 1101111 11111111 11111111 10110110111 011111 10110111101 1010111 1011100101 1111101 0110101010 101101010 0111111101 1011101 0110111101 0110111 1100111111 10101001 110011111 1111101 1111111111 11100101
- Amount of stanzas: 5
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 292
- Average number of words per stanza: 63
- Amount of lines: 40
- Average number of symbols per line: 36 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 8
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; o', an', sick, i'm, me, i'll are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words i'm, an' are repeated.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines ' is repeated).
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