This is an analysis of the poem Twenty Thirteen Was A Bit Too Much that begins with:
Twenty thirteen was a bit too much.
You can turn your back and leave it....
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ABB ABB cdBB XdEB FdEE fbfg ABXcg cdBB XdEB FdEE ABBBB ABBBBX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 3,3,4,4,4,4,5,4,4,4,5,6,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 101110111 11111110 11111010 101110111 11111110 11111010 1101010010001 1 101110 00100010 11010110101100 1 1001010 011000010 1101010101001 1 101010 10111010 11101111011 11101011 111101 1011101010001 101110111 11111110 1110101 1 01010111010001 101010010001 1 101110 00100010 1010110101100 1 1001010 011000010 1101010101001 1 101010 10111010 101110111 11111110 11111010 11111110 11111010 101110111 11111110 11111010 11111010 11111010 01
- Amount of stanzas: 12
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 134
- Average number of words per stanza: 26
- Amount of lines: 50
- Average number of symbols per line: 31 (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; you, can, turn, your, back, leave, it are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word turn is repeated.
The author used the same words twenty, people at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines it is repeated).
The poet repeated the same word it at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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