This is an analysis of the poem Emotional Bullies that begins with:
We should not be undercover,
To announce the recovery of another's blame....
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ABACdb XddXe fX ABGEGfcc ccceX cehcibX a ABAC AJijc XdeXdekXd lX AJcjm kX ABACnf h ldgedXaee ABACcOfi OnmoGEGffchcC cCXbXABjcde
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,5,2,8,5,7,1,4,5,9,2,5,2,6,1,9,8,13,11,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11101010 0010010000101 10101011110 11100 0101001110 010011010 1011110010 001 1101011101 11 11101101001 100111010 010111 11101010 0010010000101 1111001011100 101 1010100 10 101010100100110100 111011 1 0111111 11 101011101 1010011010001 00100 1011101 1111111 11010001011 0111101 10010 011101 111111010 11101010 0010010000101 10101011110 11100 11110010101010 01011010101011 10011 111111101101 01100111001 1111 01010 00010101 0 0100101001 1101011010 1100110011011 01100 01111111110 111011 011100 11110010101010 01011010101011 11 1011111101011 000100101110 11001011 1011110100 11101010 0010010000101 10101011110 11100 11101111 001011101 1101110100101 1 1101 110101101000 010100101 01 0100 010 1 110101101 11101010 0010010000101 10101011110 11100 11010101100010 01100111101 00110 1001 01100111101 110100111 1 01 1111001011100 101 1010100 10 010 10100100110100 1110110101 10100 010010 10100 010010 11 1100 11101010 0010010000101 110101100 111010111100 10101010101 00101
- Amount of stanzas: 20
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 169
- Average number of words per stanza: 30
- Amount of lines: 108
- Average number of symbols per line: 30 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- 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; to, that, it are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words and, our are repeated.
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