This is an analysis of the poem On Crack And Can'T Stop The Habit that begins with:
I have given my time and knowledge obtained,
To others freely....
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aXXX abbX aXac XbXc
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11101111001 01010 0011101 10101010100 110101001010001 010111 11111111010 101110110101 1111111101 1010000110011 1111011001100010 1100110100 10 101001111 11101111010110 001001000101100010
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 173
- Average number of words per stanza: 32
- Amount of lines: 16
- Average number of symbols per line: 43 (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; they, i are repeated.
The author used the same word i at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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