This is an analysis of the poem Once The Bait Has Been Tasted that begins with:
No one should ever attempt to reason,
With another who takes pride......
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abccdb ddceadaX fbbaXeggbX fbXbeh heXd bXiX jbaXgegibj XX Xbidi baaX b ddXXd
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,8,10,6,4,4,10,2,5,4,1,5,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1111001010 0010111 010100 10101101100 00101 0101010010 101101010 010010001 11010010101001 110101000010101 01 1001000 10101011010 1111010111 110 10100100101 1101 0101001010 100110010 00110101 1 111111101 1010011010101 011101010101000 110110 110101 11100101 0111001 00101101 101 11 111010010 110100110010 1100100101 110 101110101 11111110 1111100 110111101 1011101011 1110100101010 1100111110101 10111010 01011111101 1111111001 01011 111110 01101 1111 10101110 1111011111 1110 111 1101110 110111 110101 11110 10011001010 110110 11101 11 01111 0101011010 111111
- Amount of stanzas: 13
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 154
- Average number of words per stanza: 28
- Amount of lines: 64
- Average number of symbols per line: 31 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 6
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; bait, to, i are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words that's, i are repeated.
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