This is an analysis of the poem Crosses And Troubles that begins with:
Crosses and troubles a-many have proved me.
One or two women (God bless them) have loved me.... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabbcddcebeb
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 12,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: heroic couplets
- Metre: 10110010111 11110110111 1111111110 011111111 11001111001 111111111 110101101 111111101 1110111101 111111001 0010110101 1011100101
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 520
- Average number of words per stanza: 105
- Amount of lines: 12
- Average number of symbols per line: 42 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 9
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and, have, i, ve are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word i is repeated.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines me is repeated).
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