This is an analysis of the poem Rosie Roberts that begins with:

I was sick, but more than that, I was mad
At the crooked police, and the crooked game of life....

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: abXXXcdbcXXdaaX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 15,
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: rondeau
  • Metre: 1111111111 1010011010101 11100100110100 1011011110110 10001001 111111101 001010101 1010111101 0011100101 1101001110 10101010 0111111101 011111111 1010101011 11110110
  • Amount of stanzas: 1
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 604
  • Average number of words per stanza: 120
  • Amount of lines: 15
  • Average number of symbols per line: 39 (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; i is repeated.

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  • summary of Rosie Roberts;
  • central theme;
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  • history of its creation;
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