This is an analysis of the poem To Put Down With One-Up-Manship that begins with:

Breeding a verbal fever,
To heat and not decrease......

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: ABCB Deda BAEE FDFDGD BAEE FDFDGD ABCB FDFDGDHDH iDiD
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,6,4,6,4,9,4,
  • Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: ballad stanza
  • Metre: 1001010 011101 010111010 001101 01101111 00111010101 0101001101 010011110 0110101100 1101111110 0111011001 11011101 10010010001 01101111 1100101001 01101111 011000111 01101111 0110101100 1101111110 0111011001 11011101 10010010001 01101111 1100101001 01101111 011000111 01101111 1001010 011101 010111010 001101 10010010001 01101111 1100101001 01101111 011000111 01101111 1110001 01101111 1110001 1010111011 111101111 110101011011 111101111
  • Amount of stanzas: 9
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 180
  • Average number of words per stanza: 33
  • Amount of lines: 45
  • Average number of symbols per line: 35 (medium-length strings)
  • Average number of words per line: 7
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; to, with, this are repeated.

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