This is an analysis of the poem The Real Bait that begins with:
To gentle ways I am inclined;
I have no wish to kill....
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ababcdcd XeXeeded cfcfeded gfgfhdhd
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,8,8,8,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: shakespearean sonnet
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 01011101 111101 01011101 110111 11111100 0111001 11011101 111101 11011111 000101 111101010 110001 11011101 010111 10011111 010101 11110101 110101 01110101 010101 11110101 111111 01000111 110101 11010101 011101 01111101 000101 11110101 110101 11110101 110101
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 232
- Average number of words per stanza: 49
- Amount of lines: 32
- Average number of symbols per line: 28 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 6
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; i, to are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words and, i've, to are repeated.
The poet repeated the same word hook at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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- summary of The Real Bait;
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