This is an analysis of the poem Isn'T It Strange that begins with:
Why people can not be honest.
And, ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abCDEA BFG BFG CFGB CDEA CFcg CBFGXCBFG
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,3,3,4,4,4,9,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11011010 1 0001 11010000101 01 110100100 01110101 111010 111101 01110101 111010 111101 0001 111010 111101 01110101 0001 11010000101 01 110100100 0001 111010 10001 11101 0001 01110101 111010 111101 0001 01110101 111010 111101
- Amount of stanzas: 8
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 101
- Average number of words per stanza: 17
- Amount of lines: 32
- Average number of symbols per line: 25 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 4
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and is repeated.
The author used the same words this, isn't at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
The poet repeated the same word demands at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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