This is an analysis of the poem The Cost That Is Being Paid that begins with:
Should we...
Become un-numbed, ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: AbcdcXXdX AEbBBFaacba Abgbcgccchch AEbBBFegichebj XfX XX XeX Xi dX ekkj
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 9,11,12,14,3,2,3,2,2,4,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11 0111 011011010 01011110 10101010 1010110 101 01101110 1010100 11 01010101 0111010 0010001010 0110101 0011010 0100011001 010100101 11011101 01011010 10101 11 010001 10111001 1101010 11010100 01001001101 1101101 011011 101110100101 1101011110 110110 111111 11 01010101 111110 0010001010 0110101 0011010 110011111 1101001101 11101 01101010 010001111001 1111111 0100110111101 0110001110 10 0010010 1111010111 1101 11111101 1 11011101001 010 10101001 1110011 11101010 1010010011011 110101 1 1 10101010
- Amount of stanzas: 10
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 176
- Average number of words per stanza: 31
- Amount of lines: 62
- Average number of symbols per line: 27 (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; and, that, you are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words i, yeah are repeated.
The author used the same word should 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 yeah is repeated).
The literary device anadiplosis is detected in two or more neighboring lines. The word/phrase yeah connects the lines.
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- summary of The Cost That Is Being Paid;
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