This is an analysis of the poem Fifty-Fifty that begins with:
For something like eleven summers
I've written things that aimed to teach ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abXb XcXc dede fafa gXgX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 110101010 11011101 11010110 00110001 110010010 11011101 01011000 10111111 010111010 10001111 110101010 110101001 110101010 11010101 110101110 01010101 110101110 11111111 1110111110 111101010
- Amount of stanzas: 5
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 136
- Average number of words per stanza: 23
- Amount of lines: 20
- Average number of symbols per line: 33 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 6
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; so, i are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word so is repeated.
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