This is an analysis of the poem I Can't Take It Anymore that begins with:
The one disease people fear most,
And has begun to spread as if an epidemic....
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aXXbXcd XefefX cbXedbXaac XeX Xe
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 7,6,10,3,2,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 01011011 1110011011010 01 1010101 1110110 11110101 110001 1000001010 0101101110 01001011 011111001 10001 11101100 11101 1110101 111011 110001110 1110001110101 111110101 01001001 010101001 01001 111101111 1 10100 1110000 1 11011101
- Amount of stanzas: 5
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 164
- Average number of words per stanza: 29
- Amount of lines: 28
- Average number of symbols per line: 28 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 5
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.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines attacked is repeated).
The literary device anadiplosis is detected in two or more neighboring lines. The words/phrases truth, police connect the lines.
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