This is an analysis of the poem Too Few Can See They Are Not Alone that begins with:
Broken, busted
And collected in debt trouble....
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ABCBD EFaf CfcgcXc ABCBD EFCfhib acefci aXcccf h Xhhc CjCh BECJfCHK hjjhjh haaXgXBECJfCHK
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 5,4,7,5,7,6,6,1,4,4,8,6,14,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: rondeau rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1010 10100110 11011101 0111010 1111101 1111 11101 110111 10101 100111 1111 1010101 0101 110101 1111010 1101010100 1010 10100110 11011101 0111010 1111101 1111 11101 100111 111111 1010111 000110100 001000100 1 110100 1100 110010 0111 10100 111 10 01001 11001 101010 001111 10101001 110010 010010101010 101 101010100 0010010010 001 0010010010 0100 1010 1101010011 001101100100 001001001 1 00101 110101010 101001 01001010010 110001 10101001010101 0100001 00101011 001101010 10010 110101 101 1101 1101 1010 1101010011 001101100100 001001001 1 00101 110101010 101001
- Amount of stanzas: 14
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 140
- Average number of words per stanza: 23
- Amount of lines: 76
- Average number of symbols per line: 25 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 4
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 poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word and is repeated.
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