This is an analysis of the poem Broken Are The Wits that begins with:
Left broken are the wits.
Observed on city streets, ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: AABCde fbfXaeb AABCdfd bfaeca feeXfXX bfebbb AgABCegXeegfb
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,7,7,6,7,6,13,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: enclosed rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 110101 011101 1001101 10010111 11001 101001 110011001001 11011010101 110110101001 1101101 00010011 1011010 010010101001 110101 011101 1001101 10010111 1100001 0101010 0111001 011010 01101100 0010000101 0101 0010101 1010111001 1111010 1101001101 100110001 1010100 0101111 100101101 1101011 11101010001 1000101 010010001 1101101 01100101 111 110101 101010110 011101 1001101 10010111 11001001001 110010 01011 111110101 1010110101 10100110 1000010010 1010110010011
- Amount of stanzas: 7
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 238
- Average number of words per stanza: 42
- Amount of lines: 52
- Average number of symbols per line: 31 (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; to, from are repeated.
The author used the same word no at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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