This is an analysis of the poem Tough And Rough that begins with:
Tough
Are the lives lived of those once puffed...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aBXaa CCCcCXDD Caaa aBDDXCCccc
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 5,8,4,10,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: rondeau rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1 10110111 1010111 11101111 01010010111 100011001 110111001 100011001 1100110101 100011001 110011101000 00101010 100101010 100011001 1011 11 11111101 1 10110111 00101010 100101010 100011001 110111001 1100101001 1 1010
- Amount of stanzas: 5
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 162
- Average number of words per stanza: 31
- Amount of lines: 26
- 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; to is repeated.
The author used the same word falling at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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