This is an analysis of the poem What For Them Was Isn'T that begins with:
What for them was isn't.
Like the taste of a lollipop, ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: AXXbcabXa Xdbdb XXcb cec AXa XaEEEEae
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 9,5,4,3,3,8,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: limerick
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 110100 10100101 111001100 001000010 10100001 11011001100 00101 110001 00101 1110110101 101010101 11001 11001 1101110101 1101 00101 10001 110010001 111000101 111100100 100111 110100 010101 1011101 10011110110 01101 1101101000 101101000 1101101000 101101000 110 01000
- Amount of stanzas: 6
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 166
- Average number of words per stanza: 30
- Amount of lines: 32
- 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:
There are many exclamation marks in the poem. The speaker is excited. He or she has strong feelings on the subject that is described in the poem.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; from, no, movement, witnessed, this are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word they is repeated.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines this is repeated).
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