This is an analysis of the poem Roll With The Punches that begins with:
Why do you have those bruises,
All over your face? ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ab acX acXXb XXaaXbXaX c cdacadX X caXX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 2,3,5,9,1,7,1,4,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1111110 11011 11101010 110 1111110 1010 11011 101110 1111 00111 110111 1101000011 1100101101 11011111 0010111 1111001 01101 10010010 001101111 1111 11010101 1101 10011010 10101111 0111101010 0101101 1111 111110 1011111 11111010 101001 10101010000
- Amount of stanzas: 8
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 111
- Average number of words per stanza: 22
- Amount of lines: 32
- 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; to, they are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word i is repeated.
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