This is an analysis of the poem Funny—to Be A Century that begins with:
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Funny—to be a Century—... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: X ababXaaba
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 1,9,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: limerick
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1 10000100 11010101 11100100 11011111 110101010 010101010 01010110 11000100
- Amount of stanzas: 3
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 80
- Average number of words per stanza: 16
- Amount of lines: 9
- Average number of symbols per line: 26 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 5
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; he is repeated.
The literary device anadiplosis is detected in two or more neighboring lines. The word/phrase he connects the lines.
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