This is an analysis of the poem Equally Duped To Be Tricked that begins with:
Today a pity has become the equal,
For all people who believed......
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ABCD ABCD ECF gGXgGX HHEGh ECFHHEGe ABCD ABC eCF eCF eCF gdDH DHIDHIDHXcahf
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,3,6,5,8,4,3,3,3,3,4,13,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: ballad stanza
- Metre: 01010101010 1110101 1101001 1101111 01010101010 1110101 1101001 1101111 10000010101 0101001 101001 10110 101010 01101110 11010110 101010 01101110 101111 110101101 1100101 010010 1111101001 10000010101 0101001 101001 101111 110101101 1100101 010010 111 01010101010 1110101 1101001 1101111 01010101010 1110101 1101001 1100101110001 0111001 101001 1100101111001 0111001 101001 1100101111001 0111001 101001 10110101010 11010101110 10011111 1100111 10011111 1100111 1100 10011111 1100111 1100 10011111 1100111 1011001 11111101 100111 1100101
- Amount of stanzas: 14
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 139
- Average number of words per stanza: 26
- Amount of lines: 62
- Average number of symbols per line: 31 (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, what, duped, be, tricked, and, used are repeated.
The author used the same words today, people, what at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
The poet repeated the same words choose, do, tricked at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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