This is an analysis of the poem Some Prefer Their Pain On The Rocks that begins with:
Since truth today has been reduced,
To the equivalent of myth......
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abacd dceef afaag X hdgh XXiX aibij X fahae XhX afXfXaeddji
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 5,5,5,1,4,4,5,1,5,3,11,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: ballad stanza
- Metre: 11011001 00010001 11011101 011101 10110100 010111001100 1101001 1010100001 1101001 0011000011101 110111 0110101 101011 01010101 00100101101 111010011 11 10111101 11011101 10100010 110101101010 1111 00010010 100101010010 11010001010 01000101 101010011111 010101100100001 001100101110010 10111111110100 1 11 110010 11100101101 011010110010 1001 1111101101 101010 1 11 10100010 011101 11 0101000100 110111 110 01011011100 0011101010 1011010
- Amount of stanzas: 11
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 147
- Average number of words per stanza: 26
- Amount of lines: 49
- Average number of symbols per line: 32 (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.
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