This is an analysis of the poem By Any Other Name that begins with:
A known betrayal done,
By any other name......
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abbcde fceadg gaaehf ghXded hgXfgi gjgjfeccdd XXaci
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,6,6,6,6,10,5,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: ballad stanza
- Metre: 010101 110101 001001101 0011010001 0010101 0110011101 100101 010101101 10001101 10011110 0111010 11001101 0101001010 0010100011 01011111 1010010101 111101 0111 0100100010100 101010110010101 0110101010110100 1 100101001 111110101 1100100101 110100 110111101 00101111 10101 101101011100 11010001001 11101010 00110 010 10011011010 11010000110100 1101111101 101001 111010001001 0001010111010001 1111 1110111101010 1110001 110100101000100
- Amount of stanzas: 8
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 195
- Average number of words per stanza: 34
- Amount of lines: 44
- Average number of symbols per line: 35 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 6
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; i is repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word i is repeated.
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- summary of By Any Other Name;
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