This is an analysis of the poem When, In Actuality... that begins with:
If one has spent,
A lifetime of feeding upon nonsense......
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abacadedb fXebda eFgd eFggXggXcdddebd
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 9,6,4,15,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: shakespearean sonnet
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 0111 0110100110 0101001000 100000 01101011 00101010 111011 110011010 0101100 0100 11101010010 1011 1101111 01011101001 001011001 1 010100 1101011101001 0111 1 010100 1010101101 11001101 110 010011100100101 11101001 101 11110011101 1110100101 100111011 1010010101010 10010001 1110111011010
- Amount of stanzas: 5
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 206
- Average number of words per stanza: 33
- Amount of lines: 33
- Average number of symbols per line: 30 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- 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.
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