This is an analysis of the poem What Would Be My Compensation? that begins with:
And what would be my compensation?
For applying your constant aggrevation, ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: AXabc dbd AcXcbccXb Aacbeb AfaebXXXf
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 5,3,9,6,9,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 111011010 10101101000 010010101010 1111010 110010 1111101 010110 010101 111011010 1001011 1111 0110001010 11001001101 1011 11010010001 111101 0110111101 111011010 0110111010 111101 111101 1101111101 00110101111001 111011010 1111 101011010 11110010 11001 010111110 110101011 11111110 110101
- Amount of stanzas: 5
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 211
- Average number of words per stanza: 34
- Amount of lines: 32
- Average number of symbols per line: 32 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 5
Mood of the speaker:
There are many three dots in the poem. Readers should think of the author's idea together with the pensive speaker.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; you is repeated.
The author used the same word and at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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