This is an analysis of the poem Too Bad that begins with:
The troubles you've caused now on you sit.
Too bad....
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aBBbBBaBB CBCBDCBB EFBB CBCBDCBB baBBgbBBgaBB EFBB CBCBgdCBB DCBBDCBBBBXEFBB
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 9,8,4,8,12,4,9,15,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: rondeau rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 010111111 11 11 1101001010 11 11 001001101 11 11 1111 11 1111 11 11011101 111101 11 11 11 111001 11 11 1111 11 1111 11 11011101 111101 11 11 01011 1111 11 11 110100 1010 11 11 00100 1101 11 11 11 111001 11 11 1111 11 1111 11 1101 1101 111101 11 11 11011101 111101 11 11 11011101 111101 11 11 11 11 11 111001 11 11
- Amount of stanzas: 9
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 118
- Average number of words per stanza: 23
- Amount of lines: 68
- Average number of symbols per line: 15 (very short strings)
- Average number of words per line: 3
Mood of the speaker:
There are many exclamation marks in the poem. The speaker is excited. He or she has strong feelings on the subject that is described in the poem.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; too, bad are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word too is repeated.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines bad is repeated).
The poet repeated the same word bad at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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