This is an analysis of the poem Preparing My Next Smearing Campaign that begins with:
What are you doing?
'Preparing my next smearing campaign.'...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XX XX aXbX a cbX Xb XcXX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 2,2,4,1,3,2,4,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11110 100111010 1 01111 1011 10100101010 0011001010 001111000 011100110 110111 100010001 111010001101 11110100 0101110001010 11111110111010 1110001 101010110 111011101
- Amount of stanzas: 7
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 84
- Average number of words per stanza: 15
- Amount of lines: 18
- Average number of symbols per line: 32 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 6
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; it, to are repeated.
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