This is an analysis of the poem Nothing Gets Collected But Dust On Rust that begins with:
If you wait too long,
Something will go wrong in your lifetime....
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ABcCCC CAABcDCC EF GG ABcCCC CAABcDCC EF GG CAABcDCC CC CCXCC
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,8,2,2,6,8,2,2,8,2,5,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: rondeau rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 01111 100110111 101 010001010 110101011 11 011 11 10011 0111 101 11101110 110101011 11 111111111 100111101001 1111110001 010011110101 01111 100110111 101 010001010 110101011 11 011 11 10011 0111 101 11101110 110101011 11 111111111 100111101001 1111110001 010011110101 011 11 10011 0111 101 11101110 110101011 11 10101011 11 10101011 11 10101011 11
- Amount of stanzas: 12
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 107
- Average number of words per stanza: 18
- Amount of lines: 50
- Average number of symbols per line: 25 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 4
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; your is repeated.
The author used the same words if, you, nothing at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
The poet repeated the same word rust at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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