This is an analysis of the poem Don'T Try To Blame It On Reality that begins with:
It has been decades,
Decay has been in place....
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ABCADEafgfhgihbh ABCADEcgfbf aX e bcX e aecXgaX eX XeXcicefX aci XcX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 16,11,2,1,3,1,7,2,9,3,3,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: enclosed rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 01001 011001 11001010101 01001 010001 10101001 01 101010 010010011 011110010 11001110101 1101001011 010100111 01011 001000100010 1001001101 01001 011001 11001010101 01001 010001 10101001 110010101 0101001101 0101001101 0101000100010 010100101001 11101110110 110110111001 11 1110100111 111110100 1110101110101 11 11101010 10100011110111 11101000101 110101110011 01100110101 1011001010 101100101011 11 1111110101 10 11 1101101010 100100001101 0101010110010100 1110110101 1 11010101 1101110101 1111101 1010011010101 1001001101010 1 1101 1110101100
- Amount of stanzas: 11
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 179
- Average number of words per stanza: 33
- Amount of lines: 58
- Average number of symbols per line: 33 (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; been, it, has, to, we are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word we is repeated.
The author used the same word it at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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