This is an analysis of the poem With No Immediate Cause that begins with:
every 3 minutes a woman is beaten
every five minutes a...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abcdefXfghaaXigcXagXjhhkebiXfbgdkcXjidXahfikagXbkhaahfX XgcccEdgXfeeXgi egfXgcccE
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 55,15,9,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: shakespearean sonnet
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 100110010010 1001100 10010000110 0110010 11101101 11101111 1110011 11001111001 1111000 101111 1011101 111110 100011011 1111111 100110010 110100 100010001 1010101101 1001 1011000 110010 0111010101 11101100101 101101010 1101101 101000 111 11011010 011010011 101101100 1110101 0110101 11111110 1100110 10011010011000 11010 1010010 010000010 1010 101110 10000011 1011000 10011011 10001010 101011 10000010 1010001000 1011000 111000010 10101 10101 1011010 110101 101001 010010 1111101110 11101001 100110 100110 100110 1001 101011 01010001001 011101000100 1011 11101001 01101001 1010101 101110 0110 01101001 110110110 0010001010 010 01001 100110 100110 100110 1001
- Amount of stanzas: 3
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 709
- Average number of words per stanza: 135
- Amount of lines: 79
- 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; every, minutes, i are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word every is repeated.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines minutes, today are repeated).
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