This is an analysis of the poem A Life Of Crime that begins with:
Frail friends, I love you all!
Maybe that's the trouble, ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabXXX ccdXXd adXdbd adXdXd
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,6,6,6,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 111111 101010 1001001 101111 01110001 11101 10110 1101110 0101001 1001110 1101011 110100111 1011010 10011 101001011 0100110100 100111 101101 10111010 0101110 011111110 101010 10011 10010
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 169
- Average number of words per stanza: 29
- Amount of lines: 24
- Average number of symbols per line: 27 (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; to is repeated.
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