This is an analysis of the poem The Gentle Anarchist that begins with:
I am a gentle Anarchist,
I couldn't kick a dog,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: AbabcdcDDDXXd AeaXafafDDggdXacacefefDDddd
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 13,27,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: shakespearean sonnet
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11010100 110101 11011101 010101 11011101 110011 11111001 110101 110101 110111 0110111 1110111 110011101 11010100 111111 01010100 0101010 110010101 110101 11110100 110101 110101 110111 0010101 0110001 101011101 01010100 111101 11010111 010111 11011101 111101 11110101 110101 110101 110111 011001 110011 11011001
- Amount of stanzas: 3
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 358
- Average number of words per stanza: 71
- Amount of lines: 39
- 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; i is repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word i is repeated.
The author used the same word i at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines fly is repeated).
The poet repeated the same word fly at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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