This is an analysis of the poem Senseless Graffiti that begins with:
Everywhere signs have been appearing,
To end the feeding of selfishness....
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XaXbcXd ceaXXf cdgggcgc BFfEFfE BFfEFfEFfE BFfEFfEFfEFfEXBFfEFfEfd
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 7,6,8,7,10,23,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 101110010 010100100 1101110011010 1101001 01001101011 001010101 010101101 101011010111 110100110010 1010101010 001001100101 0010100010111 10101011110101 10111001010010 1100101111 1101010010101 1111101001011 101011111 00110101 010010000101011 01011111011010 01010101101 100 1 10010 00 1 10010 01010101101 100 1 10010 00 1 10010 00 1 10010 01010101101 100 1 10010 00 1 10010 00 1 10010 00 1 10010 01010101101 100 1 10010 00 1 10010 110 001
- Amount of stanzas: 7
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 225
- Average number of words per stanza: 38
- Amount of lines: 60
- Average number of symbols per line: 25 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 4
Mood of the speaker:
The speaker asks many questions. Perhaps, he or she is in confusion.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; of, and, to are repeated.
The author used the same words everywhere, the at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
The poet repeated the same word graffiti at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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