This is an analysis of the poem With A Wish To Repay The Betrayer that begins with:
It's something to be thumbed up,
With a dump done....
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ABCC XXCCX XXbXXXbX DCCX ABCCXX DCCX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,5,8,4,6,4,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 0100011 0011 1100010 1100010 010101 01011 1100010 1100010 0010010100 10100101000 1010010100 1011001100010 1010010100 10101001010 0010010100 010101101 0010010100 101 1100010 1100010 0010010100 0100011 0011 1100010 1100010 0010010100 0010010100 101 1100010 1100010 0010010100
- Amount of stanzas: 6
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 160
- Average number of words per stanza: 29
- Amount of lines: 31
- Average number of symbols per line: 30 (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; with, to are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words heart, with are repeated.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines lumping, betrayer are repeated).
The poet repeated the same word betrayer at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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