This is an analysis of the poem When Truth Came To Knock that begins with:
Very few standards kept are valued these days.
Making attempts to impress the neighbors next door, ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: AbXcXade AcffceXX acgXaX hhhfidf cjbbX ceXg jggfccbiX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,8,6,7,5,4,9,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 10110111011 100100101011 0010010100111 1011010101100 011101001 01101110111010 1101010111 01001011010 10110111011 101100010 101001111 01100010 10101010101 1011111101001 111 001110011000 10010010101101 111010000 11111011001 1010110110011 110110101 111101001110 1001111101 11010101 011011100010 1011111011 01001 011101 10101101110 1100100 0111001 11100101 11010101 1110100011100 11010 1100111 0111100011 1111001001111 11 1101 111010 01011011 00111011 1110011011 101011101 11 1011
- Amount of stanzas: 7
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 250
- Average number of words per stanza: 46
- Amount of lines: 47
- Average number of symbols per line: 36 (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; to, i are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word i is repeated.
The author used the same word very at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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