This is an analysis of the poem Their Roads Have Gotten Bumpy that begins with:
Remember when you thought it was a thing,
To do to people....
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ABCD ABCD CEF ABCD ABCD CEFGHFHF ABCD CEFGHFHFHFHFHX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,3,4,4,8,4,14,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 0101110101 01010 0010011 111001 0101110101 00110 0010011 111001 101 1011101 00100111 0101110101 01010 0010011 111001 0101110101 00110 0010011 111001 101 1011101 00100111 101011101 1111010 111011 1111010 111011 0101110101 01010 0010011 111001 101 1011101 00100111 101011101 1111010 111011 11111010 111011 11111010 111011 11111010 111011 11111010 1110011
- Amount of stanzas: 8
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 170
- Average number of words per stanza: 30
- Amount of lines: 45
- Average number of symbols per line: 29 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 5
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 remember at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
The poet repeated the same word enough at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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