This is an analysis of the poem On What Basis Can You Rate My Experiences? that begins with:
On what basis can you rate my experiences?
What scale would you use to highlight or deflate, ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abcdaeff cbaXdeeX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,8,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: enclosed rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1110111101000 11111011101 01010001011101 111111010110 1111111001100001 110111001 1011001 11111111011 11101111010001 1010101011101 0100011 111101110011001 11001011011111 11101101000110 1111011100 00100111011
- Amount of stanzas: 2
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 375
- Average number of words per stanza: 69
- Amount of lines: 16
- Average number of symbols per line: 46 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 9
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; what, you, my are repeated.
The author used the same word on at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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