This is an analysis of the poem Ode To Broken Things that begins with:
Things get broken
at home ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abcdeeeecfgbXXdhXhdccdiagddcc jgeeciceieXhiXicX Xeiaebkhfi dgbkjddikeejX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 29,17,10,13,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1110 11 1101 110100010010 0111 11 01001 011101 10100010 01010111000 01001 0100101011 111001 01010011011 1011010 1010 101 011011 101011010 11111 1101010 00100010 0110010100 1010101 111111 1110 010110010 00101 010100101 111 11 1 01011 010 1011 101 11111010 110110 1110111 1110 1 1010011 100 010101 011 10 111101 11011 1010 101 1 11111 01110101001 1000 01011000100 11001011 111110010 01111101 00011100 001 1110101 00101010 111010 11101 01010101 00110001 110101 11111 11110101
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 413
- Average number of words per stanza: 72
- Amount of lines: 69
- Average number of symbols per line: 23 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 4
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; it, or, round are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words it, or, the, for are repeated.
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