This is an analysis of the poem Compensation Pete that begins with:
He used to say: There ain't a doubt
Misfortune is a bitter pill,...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ababcaca XdaddXdX eaeacecX XXXXeaeaa
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,8,8,9,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: ballad stanza
- Metre: 11011101 01000101 10110101 111001001 11000101 11010001 11010101 11110101 110111110 11101001101 101010011 11111101 01010011 10110101 11010010 0101001000 1101100011 101011001 11110101 11110101 11111101 11110111 11011101 110111010 11110101 11010001 111110110 1111110100 11110001 01001111 11010101 01010101 11110101
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 291
- Average number of words per stanza: 53
- Amount of lines: 33
- Average number of symbols per line: 34 (medium-length strings)
- 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; he is repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words there's, i'll are repeated.
The author used the same word he at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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- summary of Compensation Pete;
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