This is an analysis of the poem A Sane Revolution that begins with:
If you make a revolution, make it for fun,
don't make it in ghastly seriousness,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aXba XX cc ccbX dad eXXea
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,2,2,4,3,5,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: enclosed rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 011010101011 1100101000 11001010 1011 110011110 10101011 1101010 101010010 11010100 100111110100 101010010101 111101011010 110101010 10111110101010000111 11111100110 11010111010011 1100110111110 1010111110100 110111101010111 1101110101011
- Amount of stanzas: 6
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 138
- Average number of words per stanza: 28
- Amount of lines: 20
- Average number of symbols per line: 41 (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; it, make, let's, labour are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words don't, and are repeated.
The author used the same word don't at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines money, equality are repeated).
The literary device anadiplosis is detected in two or more neighboring lines. The word/phrase labour connects the lines.
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