This is an analysis of the poem Tenuous And Precarious that begins with:
Tenuous and Precarious
Were my guardians,...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abab aacb aaab XXbcab abaX XXXXcX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,6,4,6,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: limerick
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 10010100 01100 01001100 110 1101100 100 111 110 11110100 100100 1001100 1110 1101100 11100 110 101011 11010 11110 11100 11 11100 1 11010 1010 1110 11111 110 10
- Amount of stanzas: 6
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 82
- Average number of words per stanza: 13
- Amount of lines: 28
- Average number of symbols per line: 17 (very short strings)
- Average number of words per line: 3
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; spurious, finis are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word spurious is repeated.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines hazardous, perfidious, finis are repeated).
The poet repeated the same word romans at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
The literary device anadiplosis is detected in two or more neighboring lines. The words/phrases hazardous, spurious, finis connect the lines.
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