This is an analysis of the poem Bound Down And Traveled To Brag that begins with:
Bound down.
With a weight much too heavy....
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: AXbc dbcb AXXX XeeXd AcX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,5,3,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11 0011110 011010 10100101 11101000100 1101010110101 100010100101 0010101010 11 101010010 11001010001 10110100111 1111001 101000101001 111110100 1010011111001 01000101001100 11 100101000 01100010001
- Amount of stanzas: 5
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 144
- Average number of words per stanza: 26
- Amount of lines: 20
- Average number of symbols per line: 35 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 7
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; to is repeated.
The author used the same word bound at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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