This is an analysis of the poem O Destitutes! that begins with:

With the curved smile on your tender lips, O crescent, is it a crooked suggestion?
Are you looking for companions to join you to loot every home...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: aa bb cc bb XX dd ee aa X
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,1,
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: couplets
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 00111110111000010010 1110101001101100101010 10100101011010001 110101111101011101 01001101110100001 011101010010101111 10111011101011101 1000100010111001 11111010101100011000 0101110111010101001101 1111000111011010110 11010100101111111110 111010010101101101 10111011101010010101111 10101110111010011010 101101101110010010101010 01001000111010010100101010
  • Amount of stanzas: 9
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 148
  • Average number of words per stanza: 26
  • Amount of lines: 17
  • Average number of symbols per line: 78 (very long strings)
  • Average number of words per line: 14
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; you, and, your, to, of are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word i is repeated.

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