This is an analysis of the poem Fences. They Are Everywhere that begins with:
I tried balancing on different fences,
To straddle perfectly to do with time spent....
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abcbXXb cadaaXccX X b X b XX b dX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 7,9,1,1,1,1,2,1,2,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11100110010 01010001011 1110011010001001 01110101 1010010100 01011110 011011101 1111010 1010010 11010010101 111010011 011011010 1110111 01010010100100010 0101001101001 101101110101 100 01 100 11 1011011010 010100101 1011001 1011101 1011100101
- Amount of stanzas: 9
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 97
- Average number of words per stanza: 17
- Amount of lines: 25
- Average number of symbols per line: 34 (medium-length strings)
- 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 is repeated.
The literary device anadiplosis is detected in two or more neighboring lines. The word/phrase everywhere connects the lines.
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