This is an analysis of the poem Song For A Singer that begins with:
When you go underground with all your airs,
Your kindly lies and your ridiculous prayers,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabbb ccddd Xccccc
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 5,5,6,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: rondeau
- Metre: 1111010111 11011101001 1111010101 0111010101 1111010111 0101110111 1101110101 0101010101 0101011101 10101010101 0111010111 0101010101 1100010111 0101010101 1011001101
- Amount of stanzas: 3
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 218
- Average number of words per stanza: 42
- Amount of lines: 17
- Average number of symbols per line: 38 (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; your, nor are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word the is repeated.
The author used the same word the at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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