This is an analysis of the poem The Benefit Of This Is Missed that begins with:
It's better with a bit of innocence.
Better with a benefit of it, ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ABaABcDAABa EAEAB facf EAEABXABaABcDAABab
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 11,5,4,18,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rondeau rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 0100010100 100010000 1 0100010100 100010000 1 11011101 0100010100 1111111100 0100010000 1 1101111010 101101010100 101101011010 100101 0101 10100111001 0100111110000 10110010101 101101011001 1101111010 101101010100 101101011010 100101 0101 0100010100 100010000 1 0100010100 100010000 1 11011101 0100010100 1111111100 0100010000 1 101000001
- Amount of stanzas: 5
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 230
- Average number of words per stanza: 42
- Amount of lines: 37
- Average number of symbols per line: 30 (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; better, with, of, to, many are repeated.
The poet repeated the same word missed at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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