This is an analysis of the poem Sometimes Your Demonstrations Make Sense that begins with:
Why do you hand me that noose?
Is this your attempt at comedy? ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aX XbcdX bdX beaec
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 2,5,3,5,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: rondeau
- Metre: 1111111 001011100 1 1 11101001 1111010010 1110011 110100010001 01011110111 010010111010001 11 01 1101011 11101 11111111
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 105
- Average number of words per stanza: 21
- Amount of lines: 15
- Average number of symbols per line: 27 (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; i, to, you are repeated.
The poet repeated the same word ' at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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