This is an analysis of the poem Just And Equal Punishment that begins with:
Getting rid of the culprits,
Does little to undo those misdeeds done....
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aXbcbde babcb Edaea Ebfff
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 7,5,5,5,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rondeau rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1010010 1100011011 0100110 0101011101 11011010010100 010101100010100 011110100 111010001 10101100101010 110110101 11111101 001010 1110100 0010010110100 110101010100 111110001 001001100100 1110100 10010010 0111001 1110011100 10101
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 201
- Average number of words per stanza: 34
- Amount of lines: 22
- Average number of symbols per line: 36 (medium-length strings)
- 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; to, and are repeated.
The author used the same word just at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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