This is an analysis of the poem The Loser that begins with:
Mama said I'd lose my head
if it wasn't fastened on....
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XabaXa bbbbXbbbaXb
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,11,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: limerick
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1011111 0010101 0111010 01100110 0111101 1101 111110 011100 111100 011010 1011101 011110 1101010 011000 111111 101 1111001
- Amount of stanzas: 2
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 214
- Average number of words per stanza: 46
- Amount of lines: 17
- Average number of symbols per line: 24 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 5
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; it, and are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word and is repeated.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines it is repeated).
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