This is an analysis of the poem Shame that begins with:
It is a cramped little state with no foreign policy,
Save to be thought inoffensive. The grammar of the language...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aXbcadeceXcefgdfdfXhijdcbfgihcjdg
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 33,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 00011010110100 100100100100010 1100100100010010 00101100110010 11110010010010 011011101010 1101011101 1101001001010 100101101010 100111110100100 10011101010 11010110010 11010010010010 1111111111010 010110101101 010110010110010 01011010110010 110100101010 10101001001001 01101010110011 1110101001010 0100101010001 01010000101 11010101011 11001001100100 1101110110110 101100001110 101101011101010 1001001011001 0101111010010 01010001101 110101010011 1101001001100
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 1682
- Average number of words per stanza: 275
- Amount of lines: 33
- Average number of symbols per line: 50 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 8
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; to, as, of are repeated.
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