This is an analysis of the poem To Lose A Battle Against Truth that begins with:
It must be frightening!
Traumatic and breath taking...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabc cddcX XXcb bXX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,5,4,3,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: enclosed rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 010100 0101110 01010 011101 1110111 0101010 001001 1010101 101010 1001111 10101010 101 00100001100 1101010010 111011010001010 01011011000010101
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 124
- Average number of words per stanza: 23
- Amount of lines: 16
- Average number of symbols per line: 30 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- 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; of is repeated.
The author used the same word and at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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