This is an analysis of the poem Embarrassed And Battered that begins with:
Embarrassed and battered.
And nothing you have done is deserving of that....
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ABB ABB CBDBB EBFBB EBB ABB ABB CFEDEBBXABABBA
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 3,3,5,5,3,3,3,14,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rondeau rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 010110 110111001001 10111001001 010110 110111001001 10111001001 1101111001 110111001001 11011110111 110111001001 10111001001 101111001001 110111001001 101110011101 110111001001 10111001001 10101011111 110111001001 10111001001 010110 110111001001 10111001001 010110 110111001001 10111001001 1101111001 101110011101 101111001001 11011110111 10101011111 110111001001 10111001001 010110 110111001001 010110 110111001001 10111001001 010110
- Amount of stanzas: 9
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 181
- Average number of words per stanza: 31
- Amount of lines: 38
- Average number of symbols per line: 42 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 7
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and, that, nothing, you, have, done, deserving, of, their are repeated.
The author used the same word embarrassed at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines that is repeated).
The poet repeated the same word that at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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