This is an analysis of the poem Ralph Rhodes that begins with:
All they said was true:
I wrecked my father's bank with my loans...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abaXcXcdedXXbbeXXXXaaff
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 23,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11111 111101011 010011011 111011111 1101001001 010010101 111111001 1100101010 1010001011 01001001110 11010101 101110111 1010100101 010111010 10101111001 11111101 101110100 11111111 110011111 111110101 010101111 1111110110 11110110
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 888
- Average number of words per stanza: 174
- Amount of lines: 23
- Average number of symbols per line: 38 (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; his, and, your are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word and is repeated.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines you is repeated).
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