This is an analysis of the poem Strange that begins with:
He thought that he'd be happy if a fortune he could make,
If he were rich he thought that he'd be gay, ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abab cdcd cccc bebe
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 11110100010111 0101111101 11010101110101 01010100101 11100100110101 1101011101 11110001010101 1101010101 11011101011101 0101111101 11010101010101 0110110101 11000101010101 0100111110 10111101111100 1100010010
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 191
- Average number of words per stanza: 39
- Amount of lines: 16
- Average number of symbols per line: 47 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 10
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; he, be, thought are repeated.
The author used the same word he at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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- summary of Strange;
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