This is an analysis of the poem Wacky Weed that begins with:

Your fiction has a sickness,
And it is in deluxe....

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: AABC D BBBBD eXec BDBDBDBD AABC D BDBDBDBDXDDDD
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,1,5,4,8,4,1,13,
  • Closest metre: iambic trimeter
  • Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 1101010 100001 1001110 1001 11101011 11101 1111101 11101 1111101 00111 1011110 11111 1101110 11111 11101 101011 1111101 0011 11101 101011 1111101 00111 1101010 100001 1001110 1001 11101011 11101 101011 1111101 0011 11101 101011 1111101 00111 101011 110101 101011 110101
  • Amount of stanzas: 9
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 107
  • Average number of words per stanza: 21
  • Amount of lines: 39
  • Average number of symbols per line: 24 (strings are less long than medium ones)
  • Average number of words per line: 5
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; bong, you, fed, on, weed are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word you is repeated.

    There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines weed, bong are repeated).

    The poet repeated the same word bong at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.

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  • summary of Wacky Weed;
  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
  • critical appreciation.

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