This is an analysis of the poem An Empty Threat that begins with:
I stay;
But it isn't as if...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abacbc cdcde fgfeghg hiifeXe fXjj Xaakk aia fllaakkkcc XkadXkdkiX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,5,7,7,4,5,3,10,10,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11 100010 11011101 1011 011 10101 1111111 11101 110 1010100101 0101 011 1001 10111101 111 01110101 111111 1111 011 1111 0111101 1 1101 1010 0111011 011111 11100100 111101 010101 1010 10111 101 0111 11001 111001 111111 1101111 111 10001 0011 10001 0100 0011011 11011101 0011011 10111101 11010101 0011111 0101 111 11 00110011 1100111 011 1110001 111011 0101
- Amount of stanzas: 9
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 140
- Average number of words per stanza: 28
- Amount of lines: 57
- Average number of symbols per line: 21 (very short strings)
- 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; and is repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word and is repeated.
The author used the same word i at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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