This is an analysis of the poem Breaking Their Backs that begins with:
Only fools, morons and fun loving idiots,
Will come together to destroy......
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abacccdX daeXfafX X d aX Xd cX efXdXc XX fd dddaX b XXX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,8,1,1,2,2,2,6,2,2,5,1,3,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: ballad stanza
- Metre: 101101110100 01010001 0110011 11101101010 1011101 0110100011100101 0101100001 11001100100 0111 110011100101 101001101111 1111100 11110010101 00101010110100 1001010 0101100000101010 1111 11 11101110101 10110 11110101 01110100110101 1010101 11001111 01001110101 11001101 010111 01 11010010 00110 11001 1111010100 1 101 10010001 0111011 0010011101 11101011100 1001010101010 111100 100 1111111011 100110111101
- Amount of stanzas: 13
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 114
- Average number of words per stanza: 20
- Amount of lines: 43
- Average number of symbols per line: 34 (medium-length strings)
- 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; and, to, we are repeated.
The literary device anadiplosis is detected in two or more neighboring lines. The word/phrase interests connects the lines.
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