This is an analysis of the poem Madness! That's All It Is that begins with:
Madness!
That's all it is....
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aBAC aXcdX AEAXF DGcXbd AEAXF DGgXA XA BaHADAhFI BaHADAhFI aBAGC BaHADBaHADAhFIXABAGCFIABACA
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,5,5,6,5,5,2,9,9,5,27,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: rondeau rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 10 1100 110 0011001 11100 0111 111101001 001101 11010101000 0110 1100101 010 110100 00101 1111001 0100001 1101001 0011101 0101001 11011001 0110 1100101 010 110100 00101 1111001 0100001 100011100 011101101 0010 1101100 0010 100111011101 10 1101 010 1101 0010 101 01010111111 11010110101 100111011101 10 1101 010 1101 0010 101 01010111111 11010110101 10 1100 110 001 1001 100111011101 10 1101 010 1101 100111011101 10 1101 010 1101 0010 101 01010111111 11010110101 0110 1100 110 001 1001 01010111111 11010110101 0110 1100 110 0011001 0110
- Amount of stanzas: 12
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 164
- Average number of words per stanza: 29
- Amount of lines: 81
- Average number of symbols per line: 24 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 4
Mood of the speaker:
There are many three dots in the poem. Readers should think of the author's idea together with the pensive speaker.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; to is repeated.
The author used the same word even at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
The poet repeated the same words madness, wrong at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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