This is an analysis of the poem The Wild Old Wicked Man that begins with:
BECAUSE I am mad about women
I am mad about the hills,'... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ababcbdBE dedXXXfXE aeeeabbbE bgdgabXbE hfdfbhbhe ijejfcgcX iBibhfXXe
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 9,9,9,9,9,9,9,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 011110110 1110101 1111101 110111 10110111 110111 1011111 0011001 1110101 1111111 110101 1110111 11111111 11111111 011111 11111101 1111111 1110101 11101111 0111001 1011001 011101 110101101 111001 11110001 110111 1110101 1111111 110101 111011 110101 10110100 0110101 11101010 11111 1110101 11100111 10111001 1110111 111101 1101101 011101 1011101 111101 1010101 1110100 111111 10110101 1110101 1010011 1101101 10010111 111001 111011 111010 0011001 1111100 111101 1011111 110101 1010101 010101 111011
- Amount of stanzas: 7
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 261
- Average number of words per stanza: 54
- Amount of lines: 63
- Average number of symbols per line: 28 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- 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; have, to are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word i is repeated.
The poet repeated the same word end 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 word/phrase i connects the lines.
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