This is an analysis of the poem Nicotine that begins with:

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  • Rhyme scheme: X aBabcdXeebb aBaXeXddXbB eXfgddffXcceebbgdg
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 1,11,11,18,
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: shakespearean sonnet
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 1001 10001001 1011101 1000101 1010101 10101110 1010101 1010101 1011110101010 10111010 1011111 1011101 1000101 1011101 1111101 11111 10111010 10101000 10111010 10100001100010 1010011110 10010111 1011101 10110110 11111000 1110111 1111101 1001101010 10111110 1101101 1011011 101001010 110101010 01010100 010100001 1111101 1011101 10100011 111011 1101
  • Amount of stanzas: 5
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 253
  • Average number of words per stanza: 43
  • Amount of lines: 41
  • Average number of symbols per line: 30 (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; nicotine, of are repeated.

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

    The author used the same word goddess at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.

    The poet repeated the same word nicotine at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.

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