This is an analysis of the poem Where Is That Villain? that begins with:
Where is the villain...
I'm to fear and not go near? ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ABA ABA CCdAEfX EEfAXDA EEfAXDA eABAG CCdAEfXG ABAF AFAEEXAEEcAEAE
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 3,3,7,7,7,5,8,4,14,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 10010 0011111 10110 10010 0011111 10110 011111 111101 0 11010 111001 0 10110 11111 011111 01 11101010 11111 1111 010100110 11111 011111 01 11101010 11111 1111 010100110 1 10010 0011111 10110 10011101 011111 111101 0 11010 111001 0 10110 10011101 10010 0011111 10110 10011001 10010 10011001 10110 11101011 01 10110 11101011 01 1 10110 1110101101 10110 1110101101
- Amount of stanzas: 10
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 132
- Average number of words per stanza: 25
- Amount of lines: 57
- Average number of symbols per line: 22 (very short strings)
- Average number of words per line: 4
Mood of the speaker:
The speaker asks many questions. Perhaps, he or she is in confusion.
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; villain, to are repeated.
The author used the same words where, i at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines villain is repeated).
The poet repeated the same words villain, in, leap, scoot at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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