This is an analysis of the poem This Sickness Like A Cancer Spreads that begins with:
Antagonizing violence,
To convince they can destroy....
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XabXca dcbcXd
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,6,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: enclosed rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 01010100 0011101 10001011100 001001 1010 1101 100100011110 01010101 11101 001001010 1101010 111100101
- Amount of stanzas: 2
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 180
- Average number of words per stanza: 29
- Amount of lines: 12
- 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.
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