This is an analysis of the poem Baited By Ratings (The Defamation Game) that begins with:
Baited by ratings,
And driven to satiate......
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: AXabXcbb AXacXb AXbaXX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,6,6,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 10110 110010 0101001 111101001 11 10101010 101100 001011100 10110 110010 101010 01101 101000111 11010001001 10110 110010 11011 01110 100010011 0010101
- Amount of stanzas: 3
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 177
- Average number of words per stanza: 29
- Amount of lines: 20
- Average number of symbols per line: 26 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- 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; and, to are repeated.
The author used the same word baited at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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