This is an analysis of the poem Abuse Them And You'Ll Lose Them that begins with:
Things...
Happen every season, ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aBA aCAD eaCEFAXX aBA aCA C eaCEF ABA aCE G eaa C eaCE G ACEGXAEBAEBAEDAEDAEDAE
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 3,4,8,3,3,1,5,3,3,1,3,1,4,1,22,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: rondeau rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1 1010010 110 1 11 10111 0101110 1 1 11011 11 11001010 11 101101 11 11 1010010 110 111 11 10111 0011010 1 1 11011 11 11001010 11 1010010 110 1 11011 11 010111 1 1 1010010110 0011010 1 1 11011 11 010111 11 11011 11 010111 11 11110001 10111110 11 11110001 10111110 11 11110001 0101110 11 11110001 0101110 11 11110001 0101110 11 11110001
- Amount of stanzas: 16
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 78
- Average number of words per stanza: 13
- Amount of lines: 64
- Average number of symbols per line: 19 (very short strings)
- Average number of words per line: 3
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; and is repeated.
The author used the same words things, and at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
The poet repeated the same word raw at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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