This is an analysis of the poem Evaluated that begins with:
I would or could not,
Place a bet against anyone......
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ABCdAEBfg ghbagagX ABCdAEB ifhbhXaiXb
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 9,8,7,10,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: ballad stanza
- Metre: 11111 10101100 110001010 1 1110101 001001 010101010 11101000111 110100101101 1110110001 101010 101 1111111 01001010100 0101001 1110100 11011001 11111 10101100 110001010 1 1110101 001001 010101010 11011001 1010111 0100011101 1111010101 011000101 1011010 10111101 101010 11110000100 010110101010
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 260
- Average number of words per stanza: 44
- Amount of lines: 34
- Average number of symbols per line: 30 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 5
Mood of the speaker:
There are many three dots in the poem. Readers should think of the author's idea together with the pensive speaker.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; to is repeated.
The author used the same word i at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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