This is an analysis of the poem What A Bitter Bite that begins with:
Superficiality sustained to maintain,
As a priority to gain acceptance......
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XXa aba XXb baa X ccX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 3,3,3,3,1,3,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rondeau rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 10000001001 10010001010 001111010101 11110101001000 00111110001 10101000110001 10010011101 011110101000100 101001101 010011001 0010011010101 001001110101 10101110 1110 101111101010 1110111010010
- Amount of stanzas: 6
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 109
- Average number of words per stanza: 19
- Amount of lines: 16
- Average number of symbols per line: 40 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 7
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; as is repeated.
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