This is an analysis of the poem My Portion Is Defeat—today that begins with:

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  • Rhyme scheme: X abcccc dddcecdXeebdda
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 1,6,14,
  • Closest metre: iambic trimeter
  • Сlosest rhyme: couplets
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 1 11000101 01011100 110101 01110101 01011101 110011 11000111 11110101 110101 11010101 1101 1101 110001 11110101 01010001 1100100 01110101 10110110 01001
  • Amount of stanzas: 4
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 139
  • Average number of words per stanza: 25
  • Amount of lines: 20
  • Average number of symbols per line: 27 (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; and, of, to are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word and is repeated.

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