This is an analysis of the poem Allergic To Those Dishonest that begins with:
I've never followed shadows,
To sit and watch my battles......
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aaa aab cbdeecdd fXffffc
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 3,3,8,7,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rondeau rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1101011 0111110 1111110 1101110 11001010 111011011 111011101 11010 1101110101 1010 101001010 0010101 1010011100 11 1110101 010100111 0101 010100111 11011110101 01101111101 01001001010
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 161
- Average number of words per stanza: 31
- Amount of lines: 21
- Average number of symbols per line: 30 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 6
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; my, to, i are repeated.
The author used the same word i've at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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- summary of Allergic To Those Dishonest;
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- idea of the verse;
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