This is an analysis of the poem Immediately They Took Offense that begins with:
What happened to the beautiful home,
That once elegantly stood here? ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: AB cdefg dccf XcXaffXX X XgaXecXX a eABd XX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 2,5,4,8,1,8,1,4,2,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 110001001 11100011 1100101 1011001010 101001 1001100110 1100100101001 1 11011 0100010 11011 1 11011010 1010010 1010010 1010111100 1010001101 11 1100111010 1100100 1 10 0100011 110010111 1101010010101 101001001010 10100100001 11101 1101111 11001 110001001 11100011 1110 11110100010 11001100101010
- Amount of stanzas: 9
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 120
- Average number of words per stanza: 20
- Amount of lines: 35
- Average number of symbols per line: 30 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 5
Mood of the speaker:
There are many three dots in the poem. Readers should think of the author's idea together with the pensive speaker.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; to is repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word and is repeated.
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