This is an analysis of the poem Squashing Others Doesn'T End Their Troubles that begins with:
Where there's always trouble,
That trouble never leaves....
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ABB ABB XbXbXb XbbBc ABBXABBbBca
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 3,3,6,5,11,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 111110 110101 11010101110 111110 110101 11010101110 1001011100001 01010101110 11000111111 01011101110 111010100111 1110101110 1101110 101010 001010101010 11010101110 1 111110 110101 11010101110 111110 110101 11010101110 1010101110 11010101110 1 01010111010
- Amount of stanzas: 6
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 166
- Average number of words per stanza: 28
- Amount of lines: 27
- Average number of symbols per line: 36 (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; trouble, to, up, their are repeated.
The author used the same word where 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 troubles is repeated).
The poet repeated the same word troubles at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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