This is an analysis of the poem How Beastly The Bourgeois Is that begins with:

How beastly the bourgeois is
especially the male of the species--... full text

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: AA bc deXbXf XgehfXiXje AA cXhhd feXj aiA Xegie
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 2,2,6,10,2,5,4,3,5,
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 1100010 0100010010 010010000100 111100101 001100011000101100 101101110011 0001110100101001 101001010101 1011001111110 1 111 1110101011010010 11 1111001010100011 1100101101010 111111010110 111000110011010 1100101010001 01100100 01101 1100010 0100010010 1011010 10111101110 1101010100100111 1001100110101 101 11011110111 1111111101 11111011001110 100111101010 1010101010 1010 1100010 1001101010001 10 10101110110 1100101101110 0001010
  • Amount of stanzas: 9
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 173
  • Average number of words per stanza: 31
  • Amount of lines: 39
  • Average number of symbols per line: 39 (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; he, him, life, of, and are repeated.

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

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