This is an analysis of the poem Glad To Spread Their Sadness that begins with:

It's too bad some folks stay emphatically mad.
And insist with inciting that others fight their battles....

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: Abcccc ABdDDD cDcDDDc BDDDcDXcdccDad
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,6,7,14,
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: couplets
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 011111010001 10100101101110 0111101001 1100110010 10001 010101010101 011111010001 0010011110110 01001010101110 1101110 1100101010011 1101110 11001010100 1101110 011111111 1101110 0010011011100 11101110 1101110010 0010011110110 11101110 1100101010011 0010011011100 111101110010 101010010110 11010011011 110010101100 01001010100 1101100111011 101010010110 1 101110
  • Amount of stanzas: 5
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 280
  • Average number of words per stanza: 48
  • Amount of lines: 32
  • Average number of symbols per line: 43 (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; to, their, on are repeated.

    The author used the same word it's at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.

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  • summary of Glad To Spread Their Sadness;
  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
  • critical appreciation.

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