This is an analysis of the poem Something Suggested That Exchanges Mint that begins with:
When will the same argument,
Exhaust the nonsense of its fight? ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: AAabaaXb AAaXa aaXcdbdXca
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,5,10,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: limerick
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1001100 01010001 111000100 110010110 110010010100 0101001101 111110 0100010110100 1001100 01010001 11100110011 10110010 11001 00101010101 11010011101 1100010010101 101010010101 100101101011 11001110 0100100101101 100101001010 1001010101
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 226
- Average number of words per stanza: 37
- Amount of lines: 22
- Average number of symbols per line: 40 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 7
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, to are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word something is repeated.
The author used the same word when at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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