This is an analysis of the poem I Know What The Score Is that begins with:
If I've known for years,
My credit has been sad......
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abbaXaaX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: limerick
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 01110 110101 1111001 110111010 1110101 0011111010 111010 1111101101
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 257
- Average number of words per stanza: 51
- Amount of lines: 8
- Average number of symbols per line: 31 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- 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; i is repeated.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines is is repeated).
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- summary of I Know What The Score Is;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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