This is an analysis of the poem Re-Acting To Hearsay that begins with:
Re-acting to hearsay and not the facts,
Does not make for healthy mentalities....
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aXbaacXd XeeaXXbb beXbbcdX dc XbXdedX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,8,8,2,7,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1100111101 1111101000 10001101100 1011010101 1110000100 00101101001 10101 110111011000 11111001 1010010101 1101010 11101000010 010101101010 11100100111 00010011110 100101001010101 11110100 1111010101 0010010 0101111101 001011111001 11 10101100110 0101001011001000 1 10111111001 1 111111010 10101000010 101001110010 110011010 1111101011001 101111001
- Amount of stanzas: 5
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 250
- Average number of words per stanza: 43
- Amount of lines: 33
- Average number of symbols per line: 37 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 7
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; you, to are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word to is repeated.
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