This is an analysis of the poem Why I Voted The Socialist Ticket that begins with:
I am unjust, but I can strive for justice.
My life's unkind, but I can vote for kindness. ... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aaba cbXb XcXc
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11011111110 11011111110 10100111010 11111101110 100100111010 1011011100 11001101110 1111010100 11110111010 10010101010 0111010100 111100100010
- Amount of stanzas: 3
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 173
- Average number of words per stanza: 32
- Amount of lines: 12
- Average number of symbols per line: 43 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 8
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; i is repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word i is repeated.
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