This is an analysis of the poem Who Gets Paid What that begins with:
If I sat on a fence with others,
To prove I too could do it......
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abcbdbbbbe Xabfegcb fehebbheaehX IeIcIc eccbdX eeja jeXXaefcbeacjdegjX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 10,8,12,6,6,4,18,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: enclosed rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 011101010 0111110 110111 0001 1100010 11010110 110010 1010001 11011010 0010001 011101101 101001001011 10 1100100101 00100101110 010000100 001000010 110010111 11110010 10111010100 01110010010 1101100 11101011101 11001 1011001001110 10100101 1100110100100 1010010111101 11110111010 10001000101000 101000010 1101100 101000010 0101101001 101000010 111100011101 100110011 001011 01000 1111101 1110 011011011 1 110111111 11010001 011010011101 11 010101001 11111111 1 1010010 111001111 1 0 1010001 0011010110 11010101 0111101010 1 110001010 1111001 11101110100 1011001101 1100010
- Amount of stanzas: 7
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 288
- Average number of words per stanza: 51
- Amount of lines: 64
- Average number of symbols per line: 31 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 6
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; to is repeated.
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