This is an analysis of the poem I Am With Terrorism that begins with:

We are accused of terrorism:
if we defended rose and woman...

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  • Rhyme scheme: Abcdbefg AcXXhXfbdaiiaf Ahjci hkX ihl mibnoknijahnnhgpb bcmX him icicXXXife kb hbic gXXXXXqm bcac ci AdihgXbcbi AXibfk Aresimhbsci Asagbl AiafXXmd Akiici mrXchXkba AhkfqkdiXba Adsh biXXXi ApXgb ekcp Xpf AcXfbii Akdjhc Afgbbb Adsa Amhfr Agiphm Akkk amo Amn
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,14,5,3,3,17,4,3,10,2,4,8,4,2,10,6,11,6,8,6,9,11,4,6,5,4,3,7,6,6,4,5,6,4,3,10,
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 110101010 010101110 10101 101001 001010101 11011 11110 11101010010 110101010 0101001 01010 101010 01010111 10110 10101 1010110101001010 101101 01010 101011 1111011 111101110 10101101 110101010 011010100011 11 0110111 1110011 110100011 10011001 01001010 11001001010 110101 11110 0110101010110 1100001 00100111100 010 0110110101 01010100101 10 01100100100011 0011 110 010 100010111 1010 11 101001010 101 101001 0010 10011 0110 11 011 11011 1011100110 1011 1011 1011 10110110 1010011001010 011011001110100 1101011 11010 1111101111101 1011110000010101 01111001 11111000010010 1101001010 10101 11101 001 110010100 10010110 101010 10110 110100110001 11010010 10100010001 1010 111011 11110101 111110 010001 001101010010 111010 110101010 010101 010110 1011 101100 1011000 10101 10010110 00111 11110010100 110101010 010100100 1010010110100 01101 101000010010 1000101010100 110101010 01010100001 1101001 0100 010100010 0110 0101001000101 0110010 0100 010100 011 110101010 0101110 010001 01001010 0101 010 110101010 01101 00100 0110 010 01100 0111110 00101 110101010 01111001 010000110 1111 0100 010 010100101010 010100101000110 10100100 01110101101 01011 111111 110010 0110001110 111101000101010 110101010 010101 101001 010100101010 111 0101001110110 011011 01100011 011011010 00111 110001010 1101010 00010011 00100010 0100100110 1100101 111110 010101011 101010 0101000 101 1101010 00010010100100 1010100100 101010 0001000111010 101 010001110 1011 0100010001001 11010 111011 111011110 110101010 01010011 1010100 11001 11010010 010010110 1010010101 110101010 01010111 110011 1001001 01010010001 1010001 1101010 0001001010 0101100 000100110010001 00110101110010100 1011001 1101010 00011 00100010 101001 1101010 11101110 01 010100110 11 1101010 011100 0111 1111 111011 00010010 1101010 00110 1110 01011100 110101010 1101110 101010 1101010 11101110 10101101 11001 110 11111 1101010 1101010 1101010
  • Amount of stanzas: 37
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 163
  • Average number of words per stanza: 31
  • Amount of lines: 226
  • Average number of symbols per line: 26 (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; and, no, of, in, salt, our, tearing, to, we, last, with, all, my are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words and, no, or, salt, they, tearing, to, if, the, we, our, with, i are repeated.

    The author used the same words we, i, a 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 terrorism is repeated).

    The poet repeated the same word terrorism at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.

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