This is an analysis of the poem A Losing Battle Against An Epidemic that begins with:
One's fight with ignorance,
Is a losing battle against an epidemic....
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XXabXcabbc
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 10,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: limerick
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 110100 0010100111010 01101010100 010010010001 001001101010 110001010 11001010010 0100101100 00101001 110001010
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 363
- Average number of words per stanza: 59
- Amount of lines: 10
- Average number of symbols per line: 35 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 6
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
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