This is an analysis of the poem They Should Have Provided that begins with:

I have almost been reduced to a homeless pauper.
This fatal city, Antioch,...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: aXbX XXXcdeXfXf bbf XcdXg XhXhX a ieb cciXg
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,10,3,5,5,1,3,5,
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: enclosed rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 1111001001010 01010101 1011110 01010000101 1111101001 10101001 1111001101010 10010110 1110100101001 11101010101 11100100101011 111111010100 11110100100011 01000101011001100 1110111110 10101010 101011100 01100100111111 0010001000101 10101110110 11110101110101 011111101 111010100 100111101011 111001010 10010011101 11110100 1001011110 11100110 0111000111 111100100 1010110011 10111100111 0010111010 10100101 1011111
  • Amount of stanzas: 8
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 176
  • Average number of words per stanza: 33
  • Amount of lines: 36
  • Average number of symbols per line: 38 (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; i, my are repeated.

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