This is an analysis of the poem A Risky Business that begins with:
Respecting others in some places,
Can be a risky business....
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ABbXbXX ABbXbbX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 7,7,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: sonnet with trochaic tetrameter or irregular meter
- Metre: 010100110 1001010 0100010 11011011 0011101011 001100111 001101001010 010100110 1001010 10100001010 1101011101 0100010 11001101 0111010101010
- Amount of stanzas: 2
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 256
- Average number of words per stanza: 43
- Amount of lines: 14
- Average number of symbols per line: 36 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 6
Mood of the speaker:
There are many three dots in the poem. Readers should think of the author's idea together with the pensive speaker.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; to is repeated.
The author used the same word respecting at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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