This is an analysis of the poem No Benefits For You To Reap that begins with:
You willfully played the wrong ones cheap.
The dangling carrot you chased, ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aba XXbb XXXX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 3,4,4,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 110010111 01001011 111001101 10100011001 010010010011 11111 01000011 1110110011101 111111011100 1111101010100101 1010001110110
- Amount of stanzas: 3
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 157
- Average number of words per stanza: 28
- Amount of lines: 11
- Average number of symbols per line: 42 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 8
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; you 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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