This is an analysis of the poem Sadness Begets Madness that begins with:
What can be said to a people,
Heated by their self-defeat....
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: AbAXX CX AbAc CX AdXd CXeb Adff CXCB AcabXc CXCBXCdCdCECE
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 5,2,4,2,4,4,4,4,6,13,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11010010 1011101 11010010 11100101 100101101 100110 1101110 11010010 01001101 11010010 00111001 100110 1101110 11010010 0100101 1110110 111001001 100110 1101110 010011010 1010110101 11010010 11101010101 010011110 101101011 100110 1101110 100110 01101010101 11010010 010001001111 111010010 1011011111 0111011010 1111011011 100110 1101110 100110 01101010101 100110 0010101010101 100110 00110110101 100110 0010010101010 100110 0010010101010
- Amount of stanzas: 11
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 144
- Average number of words per stanza: 25
- Amount of lines: 47
- Average number of symbols per line: 33 (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 author used the same word sadness at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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