This is an analysis of the poem Living In The Pits that begins with:
Many came a-running with their funds undone.
With hopes and prayers to have a rerun come....
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ABCA DDDD EEXF DGHDG ABCA EEXFXDGHDGHDGHGFHGF
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,5,4,19,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 10101001101 0111010111 111110111 110111010111 11000001111 11100000111 1100000111 11100000111 10101000111 10101011011 101010010010 111101110001 11000001111 111000001 1101 1100000111 111000001 10101001101 0111010111 111110111 110111010111 10101000111 10101011011 101010010010 111101110001 1100000111 111000001 1101 1100000111 111000001 1101 1100000111 111000001 1101 110000011 11010001 1101 110000011 11010001
- Amount of stanzas: 7
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 205
- Average number of words per stanza: 33
- Amount of lines: 39
- 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; bah, dah are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word bah is repeated.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines dah is repeated).
The poet repeated the same word pits at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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