This is an analysis of the poem Is This Boosting Automatic that begins with:

Is a boosting automatic,
When one gives up their pain....

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: ABABB Acbd ABABBd AbAdc ADADAAADADAA AeAeAAXABaBBAAa
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 5,4,6,5,12,15,
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: couplets
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 00101010 111111 100101010 111001 101001 100101010 111001 11 1101 00101010 111111 100101010 111001 101001 11001 00101010 111111 00101010 101101 11001 00101010 11111 00101010 10101 00101010 00101010 00101010 11111 100101010 10101 00101010 00101010 00101010 0011 100101010 101011 00101010 00101010 00101010 111111 100101010 111001 101001 100101010 00101010 101000010
  • Amount of stanzas: 7
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 178
  • Average number of words per stanza: 30
  • Amount of lines: 46
  • Average number of symbols per line: 26 (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; boosting, automatic are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word is is repeated.

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

    There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines automatic is repeated).

    The poet repeated the same word automatic at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.

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