This is an analysis of the poem Death By Gossip that begins with:
It is amazing.
They have never spoken...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abXXbcdeDBBBBfgcfegcXXDBBBBagb
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 30,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: shakespearean sonnet
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 00010 111010 0010110 111010 111010010 11010 11111010 11010110101 100100010 11011 010111 11011101 11101 11101101100 101010 1101010001 1001 1110 1100100 010010 00101010101 11 100100010 11011 010111 11011101 11101 011101001010 10111 10100100010
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 884
- Average number of words per stanza: 150
- Amount of lines: 30
- Average number of symbols per line: 29 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 5
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; they is repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word they is repeated.
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