This is an analysis of the poem How Deep Can An Ignorance Get that begins with:
I'm telling you...
I saw a five dollar bill....
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abcXdX XdceXff X b fX beea eX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,7,1,1,2,4,2,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: enclosed rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 0101 1101101 110010 0100001 1111101 0111 101110 111011111 001110110 11110011 11111 1110011 111 111110011 1111010100 11110111 101 1111001 11111100110 1111111 11 111 110101100101
- Amount of stanzas: 7
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 91
- Average number of words per stanza: 18
- Amount of lines: 23
- Average number of symbols per line: 27 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 6
Mood of the speaker:
The speaker asks many questions. Perhaps, he or she is in confusion.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; i, or, you are repeated.
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