This is an analysis of the poem This 'Hypothetical' Twist that begins with:
She lied and he knew it.
Instead of admitting this, ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: AbbXcdXbee Abfbgbfegc aXXfdfff
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 10,10,8,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 111110 0100100 1010001 10111 1010001 1101111 0110111 1101100 1010111001 10101011101 111110 110011010 010101000010 11010010101 10111010100 101110111 00101001010100 10111001 10101000100100 111010011001 11001001 00100001001 10100101111 00011010 00100111 11001010111 0100100101
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 240
- Average number of words per stanza: 42
- Amount of lines: 27
- Average number of symbols per line: 35 (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; and, he, her are repeated.
The author used the same word she at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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