This is an analysis of the poem There Is Nothing Like A Dose Of Reality that begins with:
What has been said,
Has been said....
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabbXcXccXadecebcdXdXXaacddacb
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 30,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1101 101 1101 101 101110101000 1101111 00101010011 01011 00100110 0101011 1101010 0111011110 110 11011 0010 10111 1000110001 11111 10001101 010100 1100110010 101010100100 010011 011010100110001 101001001 11000100 010001011011 01 1000110001010 101010001010
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 911
- Average number of words per stanza: 149
- Amount of lines: 30
- 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; been, has are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word to is repeated.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines said, done are repeated).
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