This is an analysis of the poem Skids Into A Fizz that begins with:
The budget?
The budget as it is, ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: A BBXcde A BBXd AaaXcX ABAFEDXABAFED
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 1,6,1,4,6,13,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 010 010100 1100001 1110011 1010101 00110110101 01110101 010 010100 1100001 00111111 11011010 010 1101110 110 111110100 1101011111 101 010 10001 11011 1101 111 101 010 10001 11011 1101 111 101
- Amount of stanzas: 7
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 100
- Average number of words per stanza: 18
- Amount of lines: 30
- Average number of symbols per line: 23 (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.
There are many three dots in the poem. Readers should think of the author's idea together with the pensive speaker.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; to, budget are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words the, to are repeated.
The author used the same word the at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines budget is repeated).
The poet repeated the same word champagne at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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