This is an analysis of the poem The Best Way To Avoid Publicity that begins with:
The best way to avoid publicity in small towns,
Especially......
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aXXbb XXcXd aaXccXabd
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 5,5,9,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 0110010100011 0100 11111110111 0001010 11 10100111001 11110010 11010 1111011011 1100010101101 1010011 110110 11100100101 1011110101010 0011101 11100100110100 11100100111010 101010100101010010
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 171
- Average number of words per stanza: 29
- Amount of lines: 18
- Average number of symbols per line: 37 (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; to is repeated.
The author used the same word people at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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