This is an analysis of the poem Programmed To Fail that begins with:
There are not that many lights,
Shining to stay bright these days....
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abcXaXaXdXb EDcXfcX DXB EcEadfabb EDgdXBgecaf DXB XgXXX EDX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 11,7,3,9,11,3,5,3,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1111101 1001111 100011001 01010011010 11011001010 11100110 01100101010 01 010111101 1110010010101 11100100101 1101 1001001 01101010 11011001000 0101001 10011010 101100000 11011010001001 10010010100 011101010011 1101 011101010 1101 111011101 010000001001 101101001101100 01010011 1001001 101011001 1101 1001001 00101 0100011001 11010010100 011101010011 1 11010101101 10010011010 00100001 01010101010001 11011010001001 10010010100 011101010011 1 11 10 111111101 1111 1101 11011010001001 10010010100
- Amount of stanzas: 8
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 235
- Average number of words per stanza: 39
- Amount of lines: 52
- Average number of symbols per line: 35 (medium-length strings)
- 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; to is repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words no, and are repeated.
The author used the same word programmed at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines you is repeated).
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