This is an analysis of the poem Sanity Is Threatened To Succumb that begins with:
Maybe today...
It's better off to be declared crazy....
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ABCABCDEDEDED ABCABCDEDEDED ABDEDEDEX dEdEdEX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 13,13,9,7,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1001 0101000110 1010001 1001 0101000110 1010001 1100010001 010 100010001 010 1100010001 010 100010001 1001 0101000110 1010001 1001 0101000110 1010001 1100010001 010 100010001 010 1100010001 010 100010001 1001 0101000110 1100010001 010 100010001 010 1100010001 010 1101010001 0100010001 010 1100010001 010 1100010001 010 110001001
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 279
- Average number of words per stanza: 46
- Amount of lines: 42
- Average number of symbols per line: 26 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 4
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 maybe at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
The poet repeated the same word succumb at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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