This is an analysis of the poem Soliloquy In Circles that begins with:
Being a father
Is quite a bother....
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aa bb cc dd Xe dX fX dX gg fX aa Xa aX dd Xe hhXaa
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,5,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 10010 01010 111111 0101 101010 010110 1111 0101 111010 00100 11101100 10100100 110110 01011 0110100 101000 111001 10101 1010100 1100100 1111010 11101110 1011010 011101011111011110 1011100 0111000 110010 0110010 1110100 11111100 1101101101001100 11111010111010 1001001010 111010
- Amount of stanzas: 17
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 56
- Average number of words per stanza: 10
- Amount of lines: 34
- Average number of symbols per line: 27 (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, they, them are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word and is repeated.
The author used the same word and 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 them is repeated).
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