This is an analysis of the poem Preferring To Complain, Eat, Play Games And Sleep that begins with:

Things will be said about the one once ignored.
The one once a joke, ...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: ABCDEFfc GAAFHh iffcj ffkjf gckai f lagmdaX midlil jdj bX ABCDEF GAAFH mebdXj njjn figXai gaXdd nX XXg
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,6,5,5,5,1,7,6,3,2,6,5,6,4,6,5,2,3,
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: enclosed rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 10010101101 01101 10101010 01110 10101001 11001 001100111 101001010 101110 011101 110001 011010000100 101001011001 0100101101101 100010 010010000101 0110 111010001010 111110111001 0101001 0010001 010111101 10101111 110101010 1010101001010 110100010110 10001 100101101 01001011010010 1110101110100 10010100 111011 1010110101 11001010100 1101010100 101011 11010100 10111110 10110010 0101101000 001 1001011001010 0101010001 00100011011010001 111001 10100010101101 1011 111011010 10010101101 01101 10101010 01110 10101001 11001 101110 011101 110001 011010000100 101001011001 10100 00100111001 00101 101100101001 110010101000 1111111101 1011010011101 010100110110101 100 1101101 101010100010 111011 010001 11111 001011 1010101 1101001 1110 1001001101 11000101 110101110 1101011101 111 111010 11 11101011
  • Amount of stanzas: 18
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 158
  • Average number of words per stanza: 28
  • Amount of lines: 85
  • Average number of symbols per line: 33 (medium-length strings)
  • Average number of words per line: 6
  • Mood of the speaker:

    There are many three dots in the poem. Readers should think of the author's idea together with the pensive speaker.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; to, and are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word and is repeated.

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  • summary of Preferring To Complain, Eat, Play Games And Sleep;
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