This is an analysis of the poem Pawning In Their Hearts that begins with:
Pawning in their hearts,
Are the people who are pitiful....
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ABCDA ABCDA Xdedd ffaXd AAAGAAAGXAEAEAEAE
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 5,5,5,5,17,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: rondeau rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 10011 101011100 10101110 110001 11001 10011 101011100 10101110 110001 11001 01110 01011 101010 0100111 100111 11010011010 0011010 100 01001111 111111 10011 1101010 10011 011111 10011 1101010 10011 011111 10011 111101 10011 11111 10011 111101 10011 11111
- Amount of stanzas: 6
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 166
- Average number of words per stanza: 29
- Amount of lines: 36
- Average number of symbols per line: 27 (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; their is repeated.
The author used the same word pawning at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
The poet repeated the same word success at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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