This is an analysis of the poem They Dislike Themselves that begins with:
They dislike each other.
Ask them! ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: AXbcb cddeeef ccXgcXeef efh I Agbg fhbXIb
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 5,7,9,3,1,4,6,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 101110 10 100111 10010 1101111 0101011 11100111 0101 0101 0101 1101011 1111101011 10101 110111010 010101 1000110100 101010 110010110010 0101011001011 10101 10100000101101 1100101111 10101011 1110100011 1111 101110 1111 011011111 111101 110010111 110111 111 1111 1000001
- Amount of stanzas: 8
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 122
- Average number of words per stanza: 22
- Amount of lines: 34
- Average number of symbols per line: 28 (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; they is repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words the, and are repeated.
The author used the same word they 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 thinks is repeated).
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