This is an analysis of the poem Lip And Nonsense that begins with:
Choose if you wish,
To strip and whip me......
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: Xab XaX cbX Xca
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 3,3,3,3,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1011 01111 01110 1111101 010011101 10111 1101001100100 10001000100 0100111110 1010111 1101110 001000101
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 90
- Average number of words per stanza: 17
- Amount of lines: 12
- Average number of symbols per line: 29 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- 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; and is repeated.
The author used the same word and at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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- summary of Lip And Nonsense;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
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