This is an analysis of the poem Who Allowed This Disappointment that begins with:
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Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: Xababcddc XeddbXXXdddeb
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 9,13,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: enclosed rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1 11 0111010 111 111010 1111100 000111010 10101010 0111010 10010 101101001011 100101111010 101000101 101 0101010101 10101000110 11101 101100100101010 11101010101 01010010 1011001100110
- Amount of stanzas: 3
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 215
- Average number of words per stanza: 36
- Amount of lines: 21
- 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:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; of is repeated.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines disappointment is repeated).
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