This is an analysis of the poem Anyone With An Ego Fever that begins with:

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Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: ABABABAB cDefXABAB cDfXABAB DXfBEgbABAB fBEbcbXg
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,9,8,11,8,
  • Closest metre: iambic trimeter
  • Сlosest rhyme: couplets
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 00 100011 000 100011 00 100011 000 100011 0111 0110 101 11 01110 00 100011 000 100011 0111 0110 11 001010 00 100011 000 100011 0110 1110011 1 111111101 11101 011010 11101 00 100011 000 100011 1 111111101 11101 0111 001000101 1101 00101010101 100011010
  • Amount of stanzas: 5
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 166
  • Average number of words per stanza: 35
  • Amount of lines: 44
  • Average number of symbols per line: 18 (very short strings)
  • Average number of words per line: 4
  • 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; know, we are repeated.

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

    The author used the same word it at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.

    The poet repeated the same word due at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.

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  • summary of Anyone With An Ego Fever;
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  • history of its creation;
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