This is an analysis of the poem Just Another Figment that begins with:
It's better to give it than get it!
Better to give it than get it....
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: AAABCdAEX AAXcBCAE AXAXABCEF AXAXAEFAXAXEAX XdG AAAG X Xg
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 9,8,9,14,3,4,1,2,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 010010110 10010110 0010010110 1111010 011111 100101101110 00101010111 11011111 010111 010010110 10010110 1101010 011111 1111010 011111 00101010111 11011111 010010110 11 10010110 101 010010110 1111010 011111 11010101 1110100101 010010110 11 10010110 101 010010110 11010101 1110100101 10001011 11 10001011 11 11010101 10001011 11 1 110111101 1101010101 010010110 10010110 0010010110 1101010101 1011001 00010100 1001010100110001010
- Amount of stanzas: 8
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 193
- Average number of words per stanza: 40
- Amount of lines: 50
- Average number of symbols per line: 30 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 6
Mood of the speaker:
The speaker asks many questions. Perhaps, he or she is in confusion.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; it, better, to, give, than, get, they are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word no is repeated.
The author used the same word it's 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 it is repeated).
The poet repeated the same word done at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
The literary device anadiplosis is detected in two or more neighboring lines. The words/phrases it, do connect the lines.
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