This is an analysis of the poem Duped To Be Used that begins with:
Duped to be used.
To leave confusion by the doing....
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ABACCD ABACCD EcXcXfgf ABAhh cdXgcccX EcFe ABAcD EcFeXABAcCD
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,6,8,5,8,4,5,11,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: enclosed rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1001 010101010 1001 11 111 110111 1001 010101010 1001 11 111 110111 11 1 1010001111 011101011111 101100001 0101010100 0010001 10110001111 1001 11011010 1001 01 111 01110101000 011011110101000 110101100001010 01011110010 01101011010001 111010101111 1100100011 00100101000 11 1 111110 1101 1001 11011010 1001 01111 110111 11 1 111110 11 1001 11011010 1001 111 111 110111
- Amount of stanzas: 9
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 151
- Average number of words per stanza: 28
- Amount of lines: 52
- Average number of symbols per line: 25 (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; to, they are repeated.
The author used the same word duped at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
The poet repeated the same word thinks at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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