This is an analysis of the poem Scraps that begins with:
There's a habit I have nurtured,
From the sentimental time... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abXbcded efcfeded eghgafef Xghgeefd chchXddd
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,8,8,8,8,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 10101110 0010101 11111010 1110101 0100010 110101 0101010 1110111 1101110 1110101 00100110 1010011 1100110 1110101 0101110 1110101 0111010 1010111 1101010 010001 1111110 1010101 10010010 1110101 0101010 1110111 1111110 0011101 11101010 1010011 1111010 10010101 1100010 1111001 10101010 0010101 11100010 10011101 11111010 1011101
- Amount of stanzas: 5
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 229
- Average number of words per stanza: 44
- Amount of lines: 40
- Average number of symbols per line: 28 (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; my, and, of, you are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word and is repeated.
The author used the same word sometimes at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
The poet repeated the same word scraps at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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- idea of the verse;
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