This is an analysis of the poem Worm Either Way that begins with:
If you live along with all the other people
and are just like them, and conform, and are nice ... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abc acdc efd dfbfaXe XcgcgXhihj heijikkdX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 3,4,3,7,10,9,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 011010101010 11110101111 1101 10110101010 11110110101101 11101111 010101 00101110101 010001110010110101 10011001 0100011001111 110110010101 1101110010100101010 11001111001 1101111110100 11101001101 111100111101011101 111011110111 01010011010111101 01010011000101 101 011 01010011010111 0110 1010101110100111 1010 1101001110101 1111101111110110 011011001 1010011010101 01111101 01011101 01111101 0011110 101111110111 1101011
- Amount of stanzas: 6
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 289
- Average number of words per stanza: 50
- Amount of lines: 36
- Average number of symbols per line: 48 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- 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; and, worm, says are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words and, i, the are repeated.
The author used the same word the at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
The poet repeated the same word worm at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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