This is an analysis of the poem Just A Rumor that begins with:
Why have they come to picket his home?
'One of them has recently discovered, ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: X XaX X XbcdceaXce cdXcXbX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 1,3,1,10,7,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 111101001 1001100010 01100010 111010 1110100 1 00101011 10100011 1101011001 11101001010 00100101 1010 1010100 0011101010 101000100 010101001 0100110 111001010100 10001010001 110111011011 111 0101111100
- Amount of stanzas: 5
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 136
- Average number of words per stanza: 24
- Amount of lines: 22
- 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:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; to is repeated.
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