This is an analysis of the poem The Filipino Politician that begins with:
When he finds his wife in bed with another man--
The conservative politician feels an ache in his stomach, ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: a bXaccb XdefXcee XeXafd
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 1,6,8,6,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 111010100101 0010010101110010 01001000101011110 1101100101011001 1011110010111 01011101110110 001110101001 01001010101010100 0100100110110 10100011101101 0111011010101101 1110110101111 10101110110110 010100101011 10011011 0100101011101010 1111001001001001 11111010101111 01010100101010 1101001010110101 111100100100
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 296
- Average number of words per stanza: 53
- Amount of lines: 21
- Average number of symbols per line: 56 (very long strings)
- Average number of words per line: 10
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; he, his, to are repeated.
The author used the same word the at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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