This is an analysis of the poem No Time To Fake that begins with:
Faked?
My abilities and deeds, ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abaaXc adaacXaXa Xdb
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,9,3,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: limerick
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1 1010011 101101 111001 11110100 1011101010011 1 1110101001101 110111010101 111011001 010110 1 1110110100 1000110 111010001 101 1111101 1101111100
- Amount of stanzas: 3
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 171
- Average number of words per stanza: 33
- Amount of lines: 18
- Average number of symbols per line: 28 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 5
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; i is repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word i is repeated.
The author used the same word faked at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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