This is an analysis of the poem Pantoum Of The Great Depression that begins with:
Our lives avoided tragedy
Simply by going on and on,...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aBXC BDCC DCCe CeeF eEFa EGah GChI CcIC cbCa a Xb
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,1,2,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rondeau rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11010100 10110111 011101001010 1101110100 10110111 1101110010 1101110100 11010100100 1101110010 1001001010010010 11010100100 01010100110 1001001010010010 1111110101 010011010 101101110010 1110100110101 01010101011011 101101110010 11001101110 01010101011011 110110011101 11001101110 01110101001 110110011101 111111110 1101110101001 010101101111 111111110 1010111011 010101101111 111101011010 11010111011 10111011 111101011010 100111101101100 110110100010100 0100010
- Amount of stanzas: 11
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 149
- Average number of words per stanza: 27
- Amount of lines: 39
- 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; and, we are repeated.
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