This is an analysis of the poem As The Ruin Falls that begins with:
All this is flashy rhetoric about loving you.
I never had a selfless thought since I was born....
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abab cbcb cdcd ee
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,2,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: Shakespearean sonnet
- Metre: 1001010001101 110101011111 1110101110111 111111100111 110101010111 110111111101 110101010111 110101111101 1011111111111 11010110111110 110001111111 0111111101010 101111010101 111111011101
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 180
- Average number of words per stanza: 35
- Amount of lines: 14
- Average number of symbols per line: 51 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 10
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; i, and are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word i is repeated.
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