This is an analysis of the poem Motor Martyrdom that begins with:
I never have clung to a motor car,
Or crouched on a motor bike. ... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abab acdC efef eccC ghghXecdc
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,9,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: ballad stanza
- Metre: 1101100101 1110101 10110111 110001 11111101 110101 1011110111 11110101 11010111 1001101 1111100101 110101 111110111 11100101 111111101 11110101 111100101 1100101 101101111 1111011 1110111111 0100001 11101111001 10100101
- Amount of stanzas: 6
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 134
- Average number of words per stanza: 27
- Amount of lines: 24
- Average number of symbols per line: 33 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 7
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; for, i, and, my are 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.
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