This is an analysis of the poem Once Ditched that begins with:
Is it fair to enable,
Another who solicits it? ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: Xaabaac XXXXbac
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 7,7,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: limerick
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: sonnet with iambic tetrameter or irregular meter
- Metre: 0010010 01010100 11000101 11111 101011 011011 11111 1111010 010100010 1101000 11111 1101000 11001001 000100101
- Amount of stanzas: 2
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 202
- Average number of words per stanza: 35
- Amount of lines: 14
- 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 punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; it is repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word and is repeated.
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