This is an analysis of the poem That Angst Aint What It Use To Be that begins with:
Every conceivable trick in the book they could use,
Even to amaze a professional magician......
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ababcc XdbeeXaX fca ebeecd ecXfXadf ffX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,8,3,6,8,3,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: ballad stanza
- Metre: 10001001001111 1000100100010 11001011001 10111100001010 0011001101 111000010001 111010 0010 1100101 111001 110110101 01001010 0010001001011 1111010 1111 0111001101 10101 0110101101 0101010 1100101001 1010101011 0010010 1111010 1 01011 101000111 1011110100 011011100 101001 010100010 101000101101 11011011 1101001 0110
- Amount of stanzas: 6
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 182
- Average number of words per stanza: 30
- Amount of lines: 34
- Average number of symbols per line: 31 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 5
Mood of the speaker:
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 is repeated.
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- summary of That Angst Aint What It Use To Be;
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- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
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