This is an analysis of the poem Since The Government Has Been Broken that begins with:
My life,
Has never been a convenience....
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ABXC XdaeXe cdfff bbdbbcf ABXCcXcf
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,6,5,7,8,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11 11000010 01000101000 00110010 11011010 01110010100 100011101 110100111 1101 1010101 11010111010 0110011010 11111011101 011111 101100101 0101110100 0110010 10111001010 11010101 10110101 01011010 1010101 11 11000010 01000101000 00110010 10010110 110010001 101001010 11100101
- Amount of stanzas: 5
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 193
- Average number of words per stanza: 34
- Amount of lines: 30
- Average number of symbols per line: 31 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- 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; my, to are repeated.
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