This is an analysis of the poem Can You Imagine Being Sold At An Auction? that begins with:
Jews...
'Know from experience what it means to be victims ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabXXc b c dd caedXea X XdX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,1,1,2,7,1,3,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1 1001001010010 0010100 1100100111 01010010101 11000000101 1010100 011 1111011101 10100 00100010001 00100011110 1101001000 110101011110 1010110 11010100 11111001000100 11111111 1 110 0111110
- Amount of stanzas: 7
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 94
- Average number of words per stanza: 15
- Amount of lines: 21
- Average number of symbols per line: 31 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 5
Mood of the speaker:
The speaker asks many questions. Perhaps, he or she is in confusion.
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