This is an analysis of the poem I'Ve Got A Golden Ticket that begins with:
I never thought my life could be
Anything but catastrophe...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abaa Ca dede Cba aadaXDD FBFA CAA XDD FBFA XcAA
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,2,4,3,7,4,3,3,4,4,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rondeau rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11011110 10110100 110010101 0100111 01101010 1101010011 11010101 10010101 110010101 110101 01101010 0110 1101011001 11011101 11110111 0101101 11011110 10010100 111101001 10101 11011111 10010100 110010110 100100 01101010 1101010111 100101000101 0101101 111101001 10101 11011111 10010100 110010110 100100 01101010 11101010 1101010111 100101000101
- Amount of stanzas: 10
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 118
- Average number of words per stanza: 24
- Amount of lines: 38
- Average number of symbols per line: 30 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 6
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; be, golden are repeated.
The author used the same word i 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 done is repeated).
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