This is an analysis of the poem To Others Than You that begins with:
Friend by enemy I call you out.
You with a bad coin in your socket,...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabaaccaXXaXdedeb fgfg
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 17,4,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 111001111 100110110 111100101 1100111111 10011110 0101001001 101101111 111111011 111100111 001001110 010000101 100100101 111110110 0110101111 01000010 110101011 110101001 11110111 111110 11010011 01100101
- Amount of stanzas: 2
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 379
- Average number of words per stanza: 74
- Amount of lines: 21
- Average number of symbols per line: 35 (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; you is repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word you is repeated.
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