This is an analysis of the poem Egos Fly High that begins with:

Over a deal to purchase a football team.
People of notoriety, ...

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  • Rhyme scheme: XaXb cddcc caeb fcc egXee fggX hggh
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,5,4,3,5,4,4,
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: couplets
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 10010100111 10010100 101001010100 001 101101 110111 1110101 11001100 110010011 1010110101 11011000100 10010101 10111001 101111011010 01011111 111010010 110111100 010110001111 110010 100011010 0001001 100010 011101 001 110110 1110101001 101010011 00101101111 1101
  • Amount of stanzas: 7
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 134
  • Average number of words per stanza: 22
  • Amount of lines: 29
  • Average number of symbols per line: 32 (medium-length strings)
  • 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 is repeated.

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  • summary of Egos Fly High;
  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
  • critical appreciation.

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